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Inslee rejects permit for oil-by-rail terminal
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday rejected a permit for what would have been the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal, saying the record shows the risks and impacts outweighed the need for and potential benefits of the project. Inslee agreed with the recommendation of a state energy panel, …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
BNSF to study coal covers under tentative lawsuit agreement
SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway will study the use of physical covers for coal and petroleum coke trains as part of a tentative agreement reached Tuesday with environmental groups that sued alleging that coal spilled from trains pollutes waterways in Washington state.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS AGO
Where were you when the top blew?
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
No one saw it coming
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Snoqualmie tragedy
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Ex-Seahawk arrested; Hope Solo ID'd as victim
SEATTLE - Former Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens was arrested on suspicion of assaulting U.S. women's soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo a day before their planned wedding day, according to police and court records.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO
Longtime usher at Husky, Seahawk games dies
SEATTLE - George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee airmen and a longtime usher at University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks games, has died at age 88.
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Idaho evacuations ordered
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Snowshoer found alive
SEATTLE - A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Mixing up a stench
EVERETT, Wash. - A year after the city of Seattle required residents to recycle food scraps, the results have been impressive: in 2010, the city's contractor diverted 90,000 tons of Seattleites' banana peels, chicken bones and weeds out of landfills and converted that waste into rich compost prized in gardens.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Progress remains hazy
SEATTLE - More than 30 years after Congress set a goal of clearing the pollution-caused haze that obscures scenic vistas at some of America's wildest and most famous natural places, progress is still slow in coming.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
