Environment
Lower Snake River Dams would stay in place under new federal recommendations
Despite calls to remove the dams to save salmon and orcas, federal agencies say the risks to hydropower, navigation and electricity costs are too high.
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Lawmakers want tougher carbon-reduction goals, even as WA falls short of current targets
Citing the latest scientific research, Gov. Jay Inslee is urging legislators to adopt a more aggressive course for curbing emissions.
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The world's first commercial electric aircraft could take off in the PNW
An ambitious partnership between Redmond's MagniX and Vancouver's Harbour Air could fly passengers on all-electric planes as soon as 2020.
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A small Washington town may build the world's largest methanol plant, but do locals want it?
In Kalama, the promise of jobs and the peril of greenhouse gas emissions are keeping neighbors divided over a proposed methanol plant to be built along the Columbia.
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4 Puget Sound counties may do what the state couldn’t: Pass a clean-fuel standard
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency may start requiring cleaner gasoline after state lawmakers punted on a similar policy this year.