[CPEO-MEF] WATER, SHIPS: Washington Attorney General "Ferguson to sue if Navy continues to pollute Puget Sound"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AG Ferguson to sue if Navy continues to pollute Puget Sound

by Elizabeth Kayser 
KOMO News (WA)
January 17, 2019

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Thursday his intent to join a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Navy's process of scraping the hulls of decommissioned vessels, which leads to ongoing pollution.

In June 2017, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, the Washington Environmental Council and the Suquamish Tribe filed a lawsuit against the Navy, claiming they violated the Clean Water Act for an incident where the Navy did an in-water hull cleaning.

In 2016, the Navy announced a plan to perform an in-water hull cleaning to remove waste from a 60,000 ton decommissioned aircraft carrier. The EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology both expressed concerns about the cleaning process releasing a significant amount of metals. The EPA recommended the Navy clean the hull on a dry dock instead of in the water.

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For the entire article, see
https://komonews.com/news/local/ag-ferguson-to-sue-if-navy-continues-to-pollute-puget-sound-01-18-2019

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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