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  • Navy to require climate change reporting from vendors

    The U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military — the world's single-largest user of fossil fuels — to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it.

    Apr. 12, 2016

  • Tesoro project: Public concerned with potential shipment of Bakken crude oil from marine terminal

    The issue getting the most attention at a Skagit County Planning and Development Services public meeting March 31 on Tesoro Anacortes Refinery’s proposed xylene plant was concern Tesoro would use the upgrades to turn the March Point refinery into a marine shipping terminal for crude oil directly from the Bakken fields of North Dakota.

    Apr. 7, 2016

  • Greening Up Transportation, The Northwest’s Biggest Source Of Climate Pollution

    The Expo Hall at Tacoma’s convention center is filled with just about every kind of electric car you could imagine in a city fleet, as well as pedicabs, ultra-clean diesel tractor-trailers and a Pierce County bus that runs on natural gas.

    Apr. 5, 2016

  • New climate change report predicts that thousands will die or get sick

    Global climate change will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and hospitalizations by 2030, a new federal report released Monday predicted...

    Apr. 4, 2016

  • Commenters ask for broad study of Tesoro Anacortes Refinery project

    The Tesoro Anacortes Refinery’s proposed $400 million upgrade project has raised concerns among some in the region.

    Apr. 2, 2016

  • SSA Marine suspends environmental review of proposed coal port

    The sponsor of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal for coal shipments to Asia is suspending work on an environmental review while it awaits a federal ruling on whether the exporting would interfere with Lummi Nation fishing rights.

    Apr. 1, 2016

  • Timeline: Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point

    Apr. 1, 2016

  • Energy fair aims to educate, inspire as city competes for prize

    Anacortes went from 10th place to being tied for seventh in the Georgetown University Energy Prize competition during the most recent tally.

    Mar. 16, 2016

  • Air quality improves across Whatcom, but clean burning urged

    While the air quality across Whatcom County has improved in the last couple days, the Northwest Clean Air Agency is asking people to make sure any burning they do is as clean as possible.

    Jan. 4, 2016

  • Air quality deteriorates in Columbia Valley

    The stagnant air, combined with burning and other factors, deteriorated air quality in the Columbia Valley, where it reached unhealthy levels at times Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 30 and 31.

    Dec. 31, 2015