12-year effort to provide funding for oil spill protection achieved
OLYMPIA -- Thanks to concerned and sustained prevention efforts at the state level, there hasn't yet been a major oil spill in Puget Sound. State Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-San Juan, says there is still critical work to be done to keep it that way.
Ranker sponsored legislation that passed into law in 2009 capping a twelve year effort at the state and federal level to develop a sustainable funding mechanism for the Neah Bay Rescue Tug -- the first and best defense to a Gulf of...
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