A train runs along Bellingham Bay

Members of GMO-Free San Juans celebrate their win at the ballot box. From left, Ken Akopiantz, Council member Jamie Stephens and Marney Reynolds.

Work on Hanford's glassification plant (2010)

Last month a ship knocked out a pier at the Westshore Terminals, North America's largest coal port, spilling coal into the Fraser delta. (Click on images to enlarge.)

The B reactor complex, operating in the 1940s, was the earliest facility to turn out large amounts of waste at Hanford.

A snowy owl stops on a sign along a jetty in Missouri during December 2011.

A Ground Up Organics youth prepares a meal.

Lawmakers continue to huddle behind closed doors at the capitol.

Xinh Dewelly serves oyster stew.

The B reactor complex, operating in the 1940s, was the earliest facility to turn out large amounts of waste at Hanford.

...and green, waiting to become bottles again.

The Weber Siphon, shown under construction with federal money, crosses I-90 in Eastern Washington about 10 miles east of Moses Lake (view looking north).

The Cape Violet, a Capesize coal bulker built in 2009 and operating under Panamanian flag, recently stopped at Westshore Terminal south of Vancouver, B.C.

Community Power Works conducts a home energy audit.

Mayor Mike McGinn, flanked by standing city council members (l to r) Jean Godden, Richard Conlin and Mike O'Brien, tells officials at a meeting on coal ports that he supports an area-wide study of the...