(April 5, 2019, 1:52 PM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington state appeals court on April 2 affirmed that the Washington Department of Ecology did not exceed its statutory authority in adopting the so-called Dungeness Rule or show that the department acted in an arbitrary or capricious manner in doing so (Magdalena T. Bassett, et al. v. The Department of Ecology, No. 51221-1-II, Wash. App., Div. 2, 2019 Wash. App. LEXIS 810)....