Fossil Fuels

The Pacific Northwest is the bullseye of the fossil fuel industry’s push to access the Pacific markets. This dirty industry’s efforts to build oil, coal and fracked gas terminals are an ongoing threat to our communities, our waterways, and our climate. To meet this challenge, Washington Environmental Council has worked with our partners across the Pacific Northwest for over a decade to create and lead three major regional coalitions that stand in solidarity, and integrated with, local communities across the Northwest standing up to fossil fuels.

Together, our coalitions defeated all 8 proposed oil-by-rail terminals and all 7 proposed coal terminals. Yet, we still face several fracked gas terminals and the oil industry’s relentless work to move, store, and process more crude oil.