Washington County Shocks Big Oil With Ban on Fossil Fuel Exports

In an unprecedented gesture hailed by environmentalists, Washington's Whatcom County enacted an emergency 60-day moratorium on fossil fuel exports late Wednesday.

Environmentalists and industrialists were both shocked by the move from the coastal county once known as...read morehttp://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/11/washington-county-shocks-big-oil-ban-fossil-fuel-exports.