Lummi Nation Chairman Clifford Cultee, speaks at a protest against the proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point on the Gulf Road beach west of Ferndale, Friday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2012. The ...

BELLINGHAM — Three summers ago the company that wants to build the largest coal export terminal in North America failed to obtain the environmental permits it needed before bulldozing more than four ...

Lummi Nation sent another clear message about a proposed coal terminal on Tuesday, Feb. 3: Under no terms will it accept Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, an area near the Lummi Reservation ...

THERE are many questions being raised about the benefits that new coal-export facilities would bring to the Pacific Northwest, and much of the focus has centered on the environmental impacts of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After spending years trying and failing to win a global climate treaty, environmental ...

Our state is driven by exports. In fact, four out of 10 of us owe our livelihoods to international trade. And trade cannot happen without a healthy rail system – which we definitely have. Freight rail ...

Three summers ago, the company that hopes to build the largest coal terminal in North America failed to obtain the permits it needed before bulldozing more than four miles of roads and clearing more ...

Eastern Washington feeds the world. We send grain, fruit and other agricultural products to countless recipients at home and abroad, thanks in no small part to our region’s rail connections. For ...

Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra Club and three other groups announced that they would file suit against ...

Two years ago, the Pacific Northwest looked like a surefire shipping hub for fossil fuels. The price of crude oil in the U.S. had topped $100 a barrel. That made competing fossil fuels such as natural ...

After spending years trying and failing to win a global climate treaty, environmental activists have finally changed tactics. Instead of pouring all their efforts into passing doomed legislation, they ...