Bellingham port environmental director retires after 20 years

When Mike Stoner first toured the Port of Bellingham’s properties 20 years ago, he started to make a mental list of contaminated sites that needed work.

It was 1995, and he had just been hired as the port’s environmental director. Before that, he’d been working with the Environmental Protection Agency on Superfund hazardous waste cleanup sites such as Commencement Bay in Tacoma.