Washington will continue to collect data on major industrial greenhouse gas emissions despite the Trump administration’s recent move to end the requirement that major polluters…
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Port of Kalama to pull pedestrian walkway
By The Citizen on September 20, 2025
The Port of Kalama will start to tear down the pedestrian walkway that connects the city’s downtown to the port’s riverfront marina, parks and restaurants…
Feds greenlight killing more sea lions to protect endangered salmon as controversy fades
By The Citizen on September 15, 2025
The federal permit that allows Northwest states and some Native nations to trap and kill salmon-eating sea lions in the Columbia River was reapproved late…
$1.5B Columbia River underwater power project turns down Trump admin expedited permitting
By The Citizen on August 28, 2025
A $1.5 billion project to bury a 1-foot-thick and 100-mile-long high voltage power transmission line under the Columbia River turned down fast-tracked federal permitting approval…
National Guard uses Cowlitz and Columbia rivers to train for air assaults overseas
By The Citizen on August 25, 2025
Washington Army National Guard soldiers descended on Southwest Washington rivers and lakes for back-to-back weekends earlier this month for large-scale training exercises. Read more… Source:…
‘Wake-up call’: Officials say giant Pacific earthquake serves as warning for local megaquakes, tsunamis
By The Citizen on August 2, 2025
Daniel Eungard gets a handful of tsunami alerts each month because of his job running the tsunami hazards program for the Washington Geological Survey. Most…
New I-5 Bridge clears another funding hurdle in two separate votes
By The Citizen on July 30, 2025
The Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Program cleared another bureaucratic funding hurdle Thursday when Metro, Portland’s regional governing body, voted to spend $1.9 billion in funding…
Shillapoo South Wildlife Area near Vancouver could be reconnected to the Columbia River, says state
By The Citizen on July 26, 2025
The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife is considering a habitat-restoration project that would reconnect the 1,000-plus-acre Shillapoo South Wildlife Area to the Columbia River…
After six years, 32,000 boulders and $172M, the Columbia River jetty rehab is almost done
By The Citizen on July 3, 2025
CLATSOP SPIT — For most of the past two years, Jesse Allen has worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week operating a crane…
Southwest Washington steel importers hurting after Trump doubled import tax to 50 percent
By The Citizen on June 30, 2025
Southwest Washington steel importers are feeling the pain from a Trump administration move earlier this month to double the import taxes they pay to 50…