The public is invited to comment on the scope of an environmental impact statement that three agencies plan to jointly prepare as part of the process for determining whether the construction and operation of a proposed export terminal for shipping coal near Longview will win local, state and federal approvals.

I read with interest the story in the recent issue of CBB regarding recent notice to sue EPA over Washington’s human health criteria for toxic substances.

At a change of command ceremony Monday, Colonel John S. Kem assumed command of the Northwestern Division office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He succeeds Brigadier General Anthony C. Funkhouser, who has served as commander since July 2012.

The Oregon Legislature in the final hours of its 2013 session approved a measure that when becomes law will pave the way for the state to ban most gill net use by non-tribal commercial fishermen on the lower Columbia River for the harvest of salmon and other fish species.

The Sierra Club and partners on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Western Washington’s U.S. District Court against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company and several coal companies claiming violations of the federal Clean Water Act.

The planned April 26 Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting has been rescheduled to May 10 to allow additional time for public review of the fiscal impact statement for newly adopted Columbia River fish management and reform rules now being challenged in the state’s Court of Appeals.