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Ports take steps to reduce emissions with $12M infrastructure grant

Bellamy Pailthorp

Ports in Seattle and Tacoma will use new federal infrastructure funding to develop electric truck charging hubs to phase out emissions from heavy-duty diesel trucks.

In this photo taken in February 2015 by NOAA Fisheries, newborn orca calf L-121 swims with its mother, L-94, off Westport, with the NOAA research ship Bell M. Shimada in the background. Young orcas often do not survive past their first year of life.

Environment

Quiet Sound underwater noise reduction program could soon slow ships, protect orcas

Bellamy Pailthorp

Underwater noise from ship traffic is one of the major threats to Puget Sound’s endangered Southern Resident orcas. It can interfere with the whales’…

Environment

Port Extends Clean Air Compliance Deadline After Testimony From Short-Haul Truckers

Bellamy Pailthorp

Clean air regulations that have been in the works for a decade are proving too tough to implement for thousands of short-haul truckers who call on the…

Business

Port Of Seattle Plans Upgrade Of Terminal 5 To Accommodate Bigger Vessels

Ashley Gross

Just a year ago, "kayaktivists" took to the water to protest Royal Dutch Shell’s enormous drilling rig at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 5. Of course,…