A one-two punch in terms of the Duwamish Superfund site:

First, late Halloween night, the Lower Duwamish Waterway Group posted the Final Feasibility Study for the Lower Duwamish. The entire document is available on LDWG’s site. This past Tuesday, EPA and Ecology had a public meeting where they outlined the changes between the draft

If you missed the update from Robert Sanoff over at Foley Hoag’s Law and the Environment Blog, on the New Bedford cost reopener leading to a $366 million settlement, it is worth the read simply because Mr. Sanoff gets points for incorporating a Godfather line and clip (even if it was the third Godfather movie).

Washington’s Supreme Court issued an opinion today upholding the constitutionality of the hazardous substances tax (“HST”) imposed by the voter-approved Model Toxics Control Act. The HST is imposed by MTCA at a rate of seven tenths of one percent on the first in-state possession of any hazardous substance (including gasoline), calculated on the wholesale value