Trees and contaminated soil are removed following gas pipeline spill in Skagit County Crews have begun removing trees and contaminated soil in Skagit County, after a pressure check valve failed on a BP-owned pipeline, causing 25,000 gallons of gasoline to spill in Conway earlier this month. KUOW Staff
This week’s catch on the Skagit delta: Tasty crabs, toxic soil As a fishing fleet hauled in 250,000 Dungeness crabs just offshore, backhoes dug up 23 truckloads of gasoline-tainted soil from the Skagit River delta on Tuesday. John Ryan
Making oil is more profitable than saving the planet. These numbers tell the story Major oil companies are under pressure to invest more money in clean energy — but there's a big hurdle: It's still a hell of a lot more profitable to produce fossil fuels. Camila Domonoske Play AudioListen 4 mins
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. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
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. John Ryan
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.” John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
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. Libby Denkmann Play AudioListen 29 mins
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. The Associated Press
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. Jackie Northam
