This grant is the latest in a series awarded for cleaning up the historically contaminated Port Gardner Bay. Ecology is now working on an environmental justice assessment for the work.

Crews are responding to a tanker truck rollover and spill into Indian Creek on July 18, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. A dual-tanker ...

With great enthusiasm, 19 community-based organizations partnered with Ecology and King County to distribute thousands of ...

Two Thurston County property owners were fined $204,000 by the Washington Department of Ecology for unpermitted shoreline development along the Deschutes River near Yelm. Chuck and Austin Rogers ...

Ecology is considering amendments to update Chapter 173-446 WAC, Climate Commitment Act Program Rule. This rulemaking may consider amendments to address new and revised Cap-and-Invest offset protocols ...

After researchers pinpointed the toxic chemical that is killing coho salmon in freshwater, we got to work, alongside several partners, to protect coho salmon.

We adopted changes to chapter 173-201A Water Quality Standards for Surface Waters of the State of Washington. In response to nominations we received in 2021, and after considering public comments and ...

The record-shattering smoke storm of 2020 is now behind us. Rain clouds have replaced the choking fog of smoke that held Washington in a vice for more than a week, and the annual dread of late-summer ...

The Refrigerant Management Program (RMP) requires facilities with refrigeration and air conditioning systems containing more than 50 pounds of refrigerant with a GWP of 150 or more to conduct and ...

State Route 112 faces numerous climate-related threats. Photo courtesy Washington State Department of Transportation. Washington’s coastlines might be considered the canary in the coal mine for the ...

We’re proposing restrictions to make cosmetic products safer and we need your feedback. Our proposed rule—Chapter 173-339 WAC—restricts formaldehyde and formaldehyde releasers intentionally used in ...