If there were any doubts about the potent weapon for recovery of environmental costs that the Model Toxics Control Act has become, those questions should be dispelled by a July 19 decision from Division Two of the Washington Court of Appeals.

The court’s ruling upheld a multimillion dollar judgment against the Washington State Department of Transportation arising out of pollution in Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway.

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