Oil, coal and legislative control: Election races to watch on Tuesday

The fossil fuel economy is being characterized as a fossil by everyone from Pope Francis to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund but has its sights on the state of Washington — big time. Two elections at bookends of Washington — a race for Port of Vancouver commissioner in Clark County, and a fight over the shape and makeup of the Whatcom County Council — have direct bearing on whether Washington hosts the largest oil-by-rail terminal in America, and a massive facility that would expo