EPA wants $367,500 penalties on Jorgensen for faulty cleanup work on the Duwamish

Losing patience with faulty work in the heralded cleanup of industrial waste from Seattle’s Duwamish Waterway, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a six-figure penalty against a steel producer that is a major presence on the river. The EPA wants $367,500 in penalties against the Earle M. Jorgensen Co. for repeatedly failing to meet needed and agreed-upon requirements in its portion of the Duwamish cleanup. The Duwamish River:  Due to industrial contamination, the lower five miles of the Duwamish was designated as a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Photo: Paul Joseph Brown, Seattle Post-Intelligencer The penalties indicate a glitch in the nine-month-old plan to restore the [...]