Jay Inslee: “One of the problems on this sort of assault on environmental protection by this administration is that it is not just…”

“One of the problems on this sort of assault on environmental protection by this administration is that it is not just one front, it is a multifront assault on environmental protection. One that the gentleman just alerted me to is the attempt to weaken our ability to successfully prosecute Superfund toxic waste dump cleanups... That Superfund site now, to clean it up, is costing tens of millions of dollars to successfully clean up that creosote, because it is leaking into Puget Sound now, and that stuff is a carcinogen and we believe it has caused some pretty awful things to happen to the fish that a lot of people like to eat. In fact, the shell beds, the shell beds are closed around this area. You cannot eat the clams and oysters and the like.”