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  Washington state pumps more tax dollars toward green jet fuel

  A who’s who from Washington state business and Democratic politics on Thursday extolled the virtues of alternative jet fuel and said the state would strive to become the nation’s leading enabler of greener flying.

  • Tom Banse
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  The tricky business of charging Washington's coming hybrid electric ferries

  Washington State Ferries dodged a bullet in preparing for the energy needs of its coming hybrid electric fleet.

  • Joshua McNichols
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  Pacific NW 'hydrogen hub' pitch to federal government treated as top secret

  The states of Washington and Oregon have submitted a joint bid to the U.S. Department of Energy to get a share of $8 billion that Congress set aside to launch "Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs" around the nation. But good luck trying to learn what exactly the bi-state bid entails, other than the safe presumption that at least one industrial hydrogen production facility would be subsidized.

  • Tom Banse
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  Hydrogen Valley vision for Southwest Washington gets boost from Aussies' proposed plant

  An Australian company is looking at repurposing the soon-to-close coal power plant property in Centralia, Washington, to build a big hydrogen fuel production facility. Fortescue Future Industries went public with its plans during a hydrogen symposium hosted by the Economic Alliance of Lewis County on Thursday.

  • Tom Banse
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  Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens

  ‘Peak oil, at this point, it looks like it’s around 2030, which used to sound far away, but it isn’t anymore.’

  • John O'Brien
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  A novel idea from an environmental activist: Secession

  Northwesterners and people around the world have been inspired by Bill McKibben’s prolific environmental activism. McKibben took some time off from his...

  • John O'Brien
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  Are Washington's volcanoes the next big energy source?

  Washington's volcanoes could one day join solar and wind as producers of renewable energy. The state Department of Natural Resources plans to tap into...

  • Paige Browning
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  Big Businesses Pledge To Ditch Climate-Harming Electricity

  Microsoft and Starbucks have joined other global businesses in going beyond the Paris climate deal by pledging to use only climate-friendly electricity....

  • John Ryan