Tony Schick
Stories
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Exploding Oil Trains Prompt More Stringent Safety Tests
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an emergency order requiring crude oil from North Dakota and Montana to be tested before being...
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Inaccurate Coal Leases Cost Taxpayers 'Millions'
Leases for coal mining on public lands in the West are costing taxpayers millions because they should be bringing in more money, a new government study suggests — and the problem could get worse if that coal gets exported through the Pacific Northwest.
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Are You Going to Eat That? China’s Latest Reason It Considers Northwest Shellfish Unsafe
After China banned all imports of West Coast shellfish, officials in the U.S. defended the imports by saying the Chinese tested the wrong parts of the...
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Spill Plan For Columbia River Oil Terminal Lays Out Worst-Case Scenarios
The worst-case environmental scenario at an oil terminal on the lower Columbia River means 3.8 million gallons of crude spilling into sensitive wildlife...
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Few Railcars Carrying Flammable Oil Get Inspected
As we researched a recent story about train shipments of oil, we asked Washington and Oregon officials: How many of the trains coming through the...
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Oil, Rail Companies Offer Little Information About Shipments
The oil-by-rail boom is underway, and with that, several high-profile, fiery derailments.
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Tree Sitters Face Off With Professors Over Logging Plan
Last year, the US Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs in Oregon, to a private company called Roseburg Forest...
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Arsenic Was Toxin In Washington Geoduck Shipment To China
Officials in Washington have learned that inorganic arsenic was the toxin detected in a shipment of geoduck from their state to China, not the toxin...