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A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion.
Robert McClure, executive director of InvestigateWest, is a veteran newspaper reporter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. SHARES Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Wash. in 2016 part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to California.
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Federal officials investigate fiery oil train derailment in Whatcom County By LISA BAUMANN, Associated Press
Published: December 23, 2020, 11:35am
Share: Firefighters look on as deraileded train cars continue to burn Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Custer, Wash. Officials say seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed and five caught fire north of Seattle and close to the Canadian border. Whatcom County officials said the derailment occurred in the downtown Custer area, where streets were closed and evacuations ordered during a large fire response. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
BELLINGHAM Federal and local authorities were investigating a fiery oil car train derailment north of Seattle near where two people were arrested last month and accused of attempting a terrorist attack on train tracks to disrupt plans for a natural gas pipeline.
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