Legal Opinion
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance v. Pollution Control Hearings Board
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided July 28, 2015No. 45609-5-IIPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Bjorgen, A.C.J.
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, and Friends of the Earth (collectively Soundkeeper) challenge an order of the Pollution Control Hearings Board (Board) involving a wastewater discharge permit that the Department of Ecology (Department) issued to BP West Coast Products LLC for one of its oil refineries. The Board ruled that the Department properly included a condition specifying that a single failed whole effluent toxicity (WET) test does not violate the permit’s terms as long as BP takes certain subsequent measures. On appeal, Soundkeeper…
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