“We need the federal government to step up to the plate and do its job,” Inslee said Thursday. “This is an environmental justice issue.”
RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has recently criticized the slow pace of cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, toured the former nuclear weapons production site on Thursday and said more federal money is needed to finish the job.
“We need the federal government to step up to the plate and do it’s job,” Inslee said Thursday. “This is an environmental justice issue.”The 580-square mile Hanford site is located near Richland in southcentral Washington state. In a worst case scenario, cleanup of Hanford might not be completed for another 150 years, or possibly never, Inslee wrote.
“If the idea of investing in the cleanup today is unpalatable, consider this — whether calamity comes in the form of a release of radiation, groundwater contamination reaching the Columbia River, harmful exposures to workers at the site, or something else, the bill will eventually come due,” Inslee wrote.
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