Jay Inslee: “I am glad he brought this point up, because we out in Washington State think the administration's effort to essentially…”

“I am glad he brought this point up, because we out in Washington State think the administration's effort to essentially gut, and it really is gutting, five major environmental bills for the Department of Defense activities is seriously misguided. The reason I say that is out in Washington, we have a whole host of military establishments. We have the Akamai Firing Center in eastern Washington. In my district we have the Bangor Nuclear Submarine Facility. We have the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. And at every single one of those sites, we have had the Department of Defense work with our local communities and we have solved some of the environmental challenges without any great failure of training or security. The Department of Defense has worked with these local communities to solve a problem with the sage grouse at the Akamai, to solve the problem of water quality in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, to solve a salmon habitat issue at the Bangor facility. And this proposal to gut these environmental protections is really a solution looking for a problem.”