A coal train thunders alongside the Columbia River. (Photo: Daniel Dancer)
President Obama's proposed 2016 spending budget, released in January, includes $3.96 million for federal agencies to acquire lands in the Gorge
Aerial photo denoting the proposed site of the Troutdale Energy Center and its geographical relation to the Columbia Gorge. (Photo: Rick Till)
A tanker train carrying crude oil burns after derailing outside Aliceville, AL in 2013. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of burning oil contaminated surrounding wetlands. (Photo: John Wathen, Hurrican
A project to reconnect the western and eastern segments of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail breaks ground.