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Northwest ports pledge to stop air pollution (29 years from now)

The Northwest’s biggest ports promise to stop polluting the air — 29 years from now.

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Speed, small talk led to oil-tanker crash, feds find

A tanker transporting liquefied petroleum gas was coming in too fast and at too steep an angle when it crashed into a wharf at Cherry Point, north of Bellingham, Washington, the National Transportation Safety Board has found. It didn’t help that the ship’s captain and a harbor pilot engaged in two minutes of “non-pertinent conversation” on the bridge as the big ship closed in on the dock.

Businesses Try To Navigate The World's Coronavirus Cargo Pileup

There was a rush of commerce after China reopened. But then demand in the West for many goods dropped, with businesses closing and consumers staying home as the pandemic spread.

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'A Lot To Be Hopeful For': Crisis Seen As Historic, Not Another Great Depression

The speed and scale of the economic crash have drawn comparisons to the Great Depression. But this downturn should be shorter, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economic historians say.

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A cop shot this wooden bullet at me at the WTO protests in Seattle. Here’s the story it tells

During the WTO protests, a police officer shot a wooden bullet at me. It bounced off the wall, and landed at my feet. It didn’t hurt me. But it shattered something: A myth about what Seattle was in 1999 and what it could give to the rest of the world.

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Is Seattle headed for a recession?

A growing number of economists and analysts are warning about a economic slowdown. Jon Talton, economics columnist for the Seattle Times, says some Seattle-area businesses are vulnerable, including one of the state's largest employers.