Navy will stop scraping ship hulls and polluting Puget Sound

The U.S. Navy has signed a court order requiring that it stop scraping hulls of decommissioned ships in a way that discharges contaminants into Sinclair Inlet near Bremerton.

As state senators celebrated Navy Day at the Legislature in Olympia, the Navy was agreeing in federal court that it will embark on a project to reverse environmental damage caused by scraping decades of marine gunk off the hulls of ships.

"The Navy's reckless actions endangered Washington's diverse marine life including salmon and orcas: Everyone has a duty to protect our waters, including the federal government," Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement. Ferguson was under the weather and unable to attend a celebratory briefing.

The settlement came after the Navy was sued in U.S. District Court by the Suquamish Tribe, the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, a lawsuit joined last year by the Washington Attorney General's office. It was Ferguson's 55th lawsuit against the federal government since the Trump Administration took office, and the AG's 25th victory.

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