In 2016, Puget Soundkeeper won successful Clean Water Act settlements against Louis Dreyfus – Pier 86 Grain Terminal, BP Seattle Terminal, Steeler, Buse Timber, Pier 66 and Pier 91 Cruise Terminals, Rainier Petroleum, and Whitley Evergreen. These cases directed over $1.3 million to the following organizations and municipalities for environmental justice, education, and improvement projects.
- $10,000 — Vashon Nature Center LLC
- $13,000 — Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
- $25,000 — Friends of North Creek Forest
- $25,000 — City of Burien, Residential Rain Garden Pilot Project
- $18,966.46 — Save Habitat and Diversity of Wetlands
- $10,690 — Port Townsend Marine Science Center
- $23,750 — Sustainable Seattle
- $739.54 — YMCA of Greater Seattle
- $2,250 — King County Department of Natural Resources
- $18,000 — Earth Corps, Puget Sound Stewards
- $25,000 — Sustainability Ambassadors, Green-Duwamish Project Design Lab
- $25,000 — Seattle Tilth, Soil and Water Stewards
- $14,674.79 — King County Department of Natural Resources, Newaukum Creek Revegetation
- $25,000 — Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, Delridge Wetlands Project
- $25,000 — Sno-King Watershed Council