Environment

A cylist on the Burke-Gilman goes past the new Life Sciences Building at the University of Washington, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Seattle. The building has “fins,” visible here on the south side that shield it from solar heat, and also have some solar generating capacity as well. 207729

September 22, 2018 at 6:00 am

New UW building is among campus' greenest, but falls short of cutting-edge efforts elsewhere

As the University of Washington plans major new buildings on the west side of campus, environmentalists are calling on it to step up its green...

September 21, 2018 at 5:00 pm

California had its own climate summit. Now what?

A key premise of the conference was that if a handful of leading-edge states, cities and businesses can demonstrate that it’s feasible — and even...

Nation & World

September 21, 2018 at 4:36 pm

A green beer that looks like algae? It’s all for clean water

A brewery is making the green, murky beer to draw attention to the algae blooms that taint Lake Erie's water.

Nation & World

September 21, 2018 at 8:12 am

Walk into my parlor: Greek spiders spin giant web over shore

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It's not quite the World Wide Web — but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred...

Nation & World

September 20, 2018 at 7:59 am

Shellfish harvesting closed along Washington shoreline

The closure affects recreational shellfish harvesting for all species of clams, oysters and mussels.

Local News

In this Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 photo. released by Cape Fear River Watch, gray water containing coal ask flows from a ruptured landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C., and flows toward Sutton Lake, near the Cape Fear River. Duke Energy says it’s initial estimate is that about 2,000 cubic yards (1,530 cubic meters) of ash were displaced at the landfill, enough to fill about 180 dump trucks. The photo was taken by Kemp Burdette with the Cape Fear River Watch, an environmental advocacy group. (Kemp Burdette/Cape Fear River Watch via AP) AX201 AX201

September 19, 2018 at 10:20 pm

Floodwaters inundate lake at NC power plant, raising alarm

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby...

Business

September 19, 2018 at 5:05 pm

Oil company money keeps rolling in to campaign to defeat Washington state carbon fee

Phillips 66, which operates a Washington refinery, is the top contributor to the campaign against Initiative 1631.

$In this scanning electron microscopy image, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service, the tiny mite that carries the virus for rose rosette disease is pictured in a black and white photo dated Oct. 16, 2016. The mite is roughly half as long as a grain of salt, too small to see with the naked eye. (USDA\ARS Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit, Beltsville, Maryland via AP) OKSO307 OKSO307$

September 19, 2018 at 12:18 pm

Deadly plant disease threatens nation’s $250M rose business VIEW

An incurable virus is causing major damage to the nation’s $250-million-a-year rose business. The virus, spread by wind-blown mites about half the length of a...

September 19, 2018 at 12:12 pm

Seattle University will become first college in state to divest of fossil fuels

The university says it will become the first among the nation's 28 Jesuit universities to divest its endowment of fossil fuels.

Local News

FILE – In this July 9, 2014, file photo, shows the “C” tank farm is shown during a media tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Wednesday, July 9, 2014 near Richland, Wash. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fining another federal agency up to $10,000 for each week it fails to start moving radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River at the most contaminated nuclear site in the U.S. The Tri-Party Agreement required the U.S. Department of Energy to begin removing sludge from a storage basin at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) LA122

September 19, 2018 at 11:50 am

Agreement reached in lawsuit over safety of workers at Hanford nuclear site

The federal government has agreed to test new "groundbreaking" technology to capture and destroy tank vapors, and install vapor monitoring to increase safety measures. Hanford,...

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