Environment

Environment Topics

Politics

Meet the Governor's new climate change attack plan

Sunrise over Puget Sound.

John Stang

/ April 29, 2014

Environment

Chunky seabird in the crosshairs of state's timber-cutting machinery

Diminishing returns: A marbled murrelet fishes for dinner.

Martha Baskin

/ April 23, 2014

Politics

Obama tells Oso: We are with you

At Paine Field, President Obama talks with, left to right, U.S. Reps. Rick Larsen, Suzan DelBene, Sen. Maria Cantwell and Snohomish County Executive John Lovick.

John Stang

/ April 22, 2014

Politics

Earth Day: Real environmentalists are conservative. And live where it's green

Wheat harvesting in rural central Washington near Moxee

Todd Myers

/ April 21, 2014

Tech

Earth Day: Greenwashing works well for oil industry

A refinery on Fidalgo Island near Anacortes (2008).

fredfelleman

/ April 21, 2014

Politics

State, feds square off over Hanford

Plans call for use of this type of tank to receive melted wastes at Hanford's glassification complex.

John Stang

/ April 18, 2014

Politics

Oil, coal, gas: Export proposals are growing

Oil trains at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes.

Floyd McKay

/ April 16, 2014

Tech

NW Forest Plan: Warfare rages out of the spotlight

While it's being treated as a local issues, a fight in Oregon over old-growth logging could create larger threats for spotted owls and even other endangered species.