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By  Isabella Breda  Seattle Times staff reporter CHERRY POINT, Whatcom County — Thick steam billowed from a series of towers and pipes, intricately woven together to form a powerhouse of the region’s energy production and Washington’s largest oil refinery. BP’s Cherry Point facility, which belched more than 2 million metric tons of climate-warming gases into

By  Renata Geraldo  Seattle Times business reporter Voters will soon decide on a key position at the Port of Seattle Commission, which manages the Port and leads policies that shape the future of one of Puget Sound’s main economic engines. For Commissioner Position No. 5, King County voters will choose between incumbent Fred Felleman, seeking

posted by AJOT | Oct 27 2023 at 09:39 AM | Ports & Terminals Port of Seattle Executive Director Stephen P. Metruck introduced his preliminary 2024 budget and 2024-2028 Capital Improvement Plan this week. Port leaders have held public briefings for Commissioners over half a dozen times over the past six months, culminating with a presentation on the proposed

BY RUSSELL FALCON THEHILL.COM  (NEXSTAR) – Watch any old movie where the characters take a flight and it looks like a glamorous getaway in-and-of-itself – but the days of comfort in the skies are long gone for most of us. And it may not surprise you to know that air travel these days is designed

However, the port’s request for a summary judgment would not affect other claims by Clark or the port’s countersuit By Marissa Nall – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Oct 20, 2023 See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Officials at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hope to avoid a King County Superior Court trial over a complaint filed

By Sydney Ember and Emily Steel New York Times On a foggy Saturday morning in February, an air traffic controller cleared a FedEx cargo plane to land on Runway 18L at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. A Southwest Airlines jet was on the same runway, but the controller said it would take off before FedEx’s

By  Conrad Swanson  Seattle Times climate reporter Nobody was quite sure how life would change for Washingtonians when lawmakers passed the state’s landmark climate policy in 2021. But in the nine months since the state started charging polluters, one thing has become increasingly clear: the sticker shock. A nearly $1.5 billion price tag — so

Gov. Jay Inslee, right, speaks with Greg Crider, an air monitoring scientist with the Department of Ecology, as he visits the Jefferson Park-Beacon Hill Air Monitoring Station in Seattle on Tuesday. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times) By  Conrad Swanson  Seattle Times climate reporter Half a dozen areas around Puget Sound, and even more across

By  Renata Geraldo  Seattle Times business reporter Port of Seattle Commissioner Fred Felleman violated the Port’s code of ethics by using his position to gain special privileges or exemptions with a nonprofit, the Port Board of Ethics found. According to board findings, Felleman tried using his commissioner status to get involved in the leadership of

BY NOAM ISMAAILI OCTOBER 4, 2023 13 MINUTES READ DALLAS – If you check our routes section, you may have noticed it is common practice for airlines to stop flying to some destinations and to open new routes. Just last month, Air India (AI) made the decision to no longer operate flights to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) at the end of