Good news.
Washington state House Democrats removed funds for a fish-consumption study from the final budget. That went against the wishes of one of the state’s biggest business interests, Boeing. The state Department of Ecology currently assumes that people in Washington eat about one meal of fish a month. But the state acknowledges the standard is out of date; many people eat a lot more fish than that. Tribes and environmental groups have been urging the state to update its standard and require stricter regulation of water pollution. But that has been met with resistance from businesses, including Boeing. The state Senate wanted to include money for a fish-consumption study in the budget. Democratic Rep. Ross Hunter says he and other House leaders removed the language because the federal EPA recently told Washington state to stop delaying.
Ashley Gross reports the rest of the story.
http://kplu.org/post/house-dems-remove-fish-consumption-study-budget
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