JULY 8, 2016--On June 21- 23, OR&R staff participated in the Clean Pacific Conference in Seattle, Washington.

Clean Pacific is an annual conference of government, tribes, NGOs, and industry experts involved with pollution response. The conference is paired with Clean Gulf, held along the U.S. Gulf coast. Both conferences focus on emergency response issues relevant to their regions. The Clean Pacific conference focused on training, spill prevention, salvage, and response issues along the West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, and western Canada, including transboundary, inland rail and pipeline response issues, as well as pollution from shipping and marine oil transportation. The conference was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force, an organization set up in 1989 following the Barge Nestucca oil spill off of the Washington Coast and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, to improve regional coordination of the state and federal agencies involved with pollution prevention and response.

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