oil spill response

Environmental groups had high hopes going into the special legislative session that ended Thursday in Olympia. But even with Democratic majorities in both…

The boom in domestic oil production through fracking is posing new risks to Washington’s rails and waterways. The state is taking comments on the initial…

Less than four years ago, there were virtually no shipments of crude oil by rail car through Washington state. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see the…

A small oil spill this week in Port Angeles turned out to be a lot less severe than originally feared. Clean-up crews are still working to get sticky…

COUPEVILLE, Wash. — The sunken derelict ship that was refloated in Penn Cove is scheduled to be towed from Whidbey Island to a Seattle shipyard Wednesday…

Washington State already has some of the highest oil spill readiness standards in the country – if not in the world.An update to those regulations is…

Some lawmakers in Olympia say “no.” They’re proposing a bill that would make the oil industry pay for a variety of precautions designed to protect…