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Environment

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
Business

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
Crime

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
Environment

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
Environment

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
Environment

Train derails near Anacortes, spills up to 3,100 gallons of diesel
Dyer Oxley

John Ryan

Natalie Akane Newcomb
Environment

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

Alec Cowan
Business

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
Business

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
Education

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.
David Gura

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