Port of Seattle Sues Boeing Over Superfund Cleanup Costs

Port of Seattle Sues Boeing Over Superfund Cleanup Costs

The Port of Seattle filed a civil lawsuit against Boeing Co. on July 19 saying that it wants Boeing to reimburse the port for millions of dollars in superfund cleanup expenses in the Lower Duwamish Waterway. The Seattle seaport is asking Boeing for reimbursements spanning 22 years and is also urging the court to establish “a fair share for Boeing to pay for future cleanup costs.” The port said that for decades the company “pumped polychlorinated biphenyl from numerous transformer vaults (holding leaking transformers) at its Plant 2 facility directly to the Lower Duwamish Waterway.” The port also contends that…
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Multiple USCG Changes of Command Take Place on West Coast

Multiple USCG Changes of Command Take Place on West Coast

Vice Adm. Andrew J. Tiongson is the new commander of U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area Command, taking over for Vice Adm. Michael F. McAllister in leading the 13,000 USCG members through various missions and activities in the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Eastern and Western Pacific and Oceania. The change of command ceremony was held July 8 on Coast Guard Base Alameda in Northern California. During the previous two years, Tiongson was the U.S. Southern Command director of operations, overseeing planning and execution of activities related to the command’s area of responsibility, which included 27 democratic nations in Central and South…
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