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As an avid backpacker and climber, Bob has a strong commitment to the protection of our state’s beautiful and unique environment. As Attorney General, Bob created the Environmental Protection Division. He won more than fifty convictions for crimes against the environment. Bob was the first attorney general to take on Monsanto Corporation for polluting waterways with PCBs, and won a major legal victory resulting in Monsanto paying nearly $100 million.

Bob successfully sued the federal government to force a speedier clean-up of the Hanford nuclear facility. He won multiple lawsuits against the Trump Administration to protect critical Obama-era climate change protections. He blocked Trump’s illegal attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act. On the final day of Trump’s presidency, Bob defeated and permanently blocked Trump’s “Dirty Power Plan.”