Homeless man charged with derailing Tacoma oil train Pierce County prosecutors have charged a 65-year-old homeless man with derailing an oil train as it approached the Port of Tacoma.
Safety device, human error derailed Anacortes train, federal officials say The Federal Railroad Administration has confirmed KUOW reporting that a safety device meant to keep trains from plunging into Puget Sound knocked a train off the tracks and onto the Swinomish Reservation early Thursday morning.
Oil train derailed to avoid plunging into Puget Sound, tribal leader says “It did what it was supposed to and spilled the train off the tracks so it wouldn't continue on into the Swinomish Slough, into the water, which wouldn't have been good at all.”
Oil, homesteading, and a complicated family legacy: Erika Bolstad's 'Windfall' Journalist Erika Bolstad inherited the right to drill oil under part of her great-grandmother's homestead in North Dakota. Instead, she dug up the truth behind family legends and wrestled with the ethics of land ownership and fossil fuels in the American West.
OPEC keeps oil targets the same amid uncertainty on Russian sanctions The decision at a meeting of oil ministers Sunday comes a day ahead of the planned start of two measures aimed at hitting Russia's oil earnings in response to its invasion of Ukraine.
What to know about the West's new efforts to slash Russia's oil revenue Plans take effect next week that would ban most Russian oil imports from Europe and put a price cap on the oil going elsewhere. But Russia could still make money off oil to fund its war in Ukraine.
As Harvard's endowment abandons fossil fuels, oil-rich University of Texas catches up Royalties on oil and natural gas, along with lease payments on millions of acres of land, are helping the University of Texas, which is in second place, narrow the gap with Harvard.
Hundreds of gallons of oil leak into Snake River from Little Goose Dam A large oil leak went undetected for 90 days at a dam on the Lower Snake River.
Saudi Arabia's siding with Russia on oil cuts causes a rift with Washington The decision by the OPEC+ group of oil producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, has created a breach in U.S.-Saudi relations, with members of Congress calling to retaliate.