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Louis Dreyfus grain terminal on the Seattle Waterfront.

Puget Soundkeeper settles major Clean Water Act case protecting Elliott Bay

Today Puget Soundkeeper settled a landmark Clean Water Act case with multiple Louis Dreyfus corporations that will result in huge changes benefitting Elliott Bay and the Seattle waterfront. The settlement requires structural changes at the site to stop stormwater discharge from the pier and to prevent spillage of grain into Elliott Bay, as well as $699,000 to be awarded to local Puget Sound restoration and water protection efforts.

Sean Dixon on July 14, 2016

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Protecting the Duwamish River: Puget Soundkeeper resolves Clean Water Act case against BP

In a settlement agreement filed today, BP West Coast Products LLC (BP) agreed to comply with its industrial stormwater discharge permit and make improvements to the spill response strategy for its high-volume bulk fuel storage facility on Harbor Island, which distributes 10,000 barrels a day of unleaded gasoline and stores up to 305,000 barrels of gasoline on site.

Sean Dixon on July 13, 2016

Cows at a dairy farm eat through a metal grating.

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Ecology’s draft CAFO water quality permit sacrifices public health, drinking water, shellfish beds

Faced with the opportunity to protect Washingtonians from industrial agriculture pollution, Ecology instead chose to ignore the recommendations of its own scientists and bowed to “big ag,” writing a convoluted, two-tiered draft permit that fails to protect our most fundamental natural resource–clean water.

Sean Dixon on June 20, 2016

Tom Murphy and Kerrie Murphy kneeling in the sand to look at something at Jetty Island.

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Standing up for Puget Sound

Being a standing witness is a powerful way to protect your local waterway. Rivers, streams and estuaries cannot stand up in a courtroom, and neither can the wildlife that depend on them, but we have the power to say something.

Sean Dixon on June 7, 2016

View of the Port of Seattle and Mount Rainier from the water.

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Soundkeeper resolves Clean Water Act case with Port of Seattle

Under a binding consent decree filed Monday in federal court, the Port must now undertake better practices to prevent stormwater pollution from their Pier 66 facility, which services 203 cruise ship sailings a year.

Sean Dixon on May 10, 2016

Manure spreading on a field. When overapplied, manure runs off into surface water and leaches into ground water.

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U.S. Senate: Muzzling public education on water pollution?

“Our rivers are in distress,” said Trish Rolfe, director of the Center for Environmental Law & Policy. “We are disappointed and troubled that two Senators from the Midwest would try to stop efforts to educate Washington state residents about water pollution from industrial agriculture and the simple steps that agriculture could take that would dramatically improve water quality in our rivers.”

Sean Dixon on May 6, 2016

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Puget Soundkeeper settles major Clean Water Act case protecting Elliott Bay

Protecting the Duwamish River: Puget Soundkeeper resolves Clean Water Act case against BP

Ecology’s draft CAFO water quality permit sacrifices public health, drinking water, shellfish beds

Standing up for Puget Sound

Soundkeeper resolves Clean Water Act case with Port of Seattle

U.S. Senate: Muzzling public education on water pollution?