We're updating requirements for protecting water quality when washing and maintaining bridges and ferry terminals.

The Ecology Litter Corps (formerly Ecology Youth Corps) hires teens 14 –17 years old to serve on summer litter crews and provide an important service to their community. They gain valuable job skills, ...

Addressing nonpoint pollution remains a key issue across the state. While Ecology leads efforts to restore and protect water quality, it takes everyone working together to clean up our rivers, lakes, ...

(Information on this site is considered to be accurate at the time of posting, but is subject to change as new information becomes available.) Washington Dept. of Ecology and U.S. Coast Guard are ...

Commercial and industrial businesses that emit large amounts of air pollution must get an air operating permit. An air operating permit is a master document that lists all of the air pollution ...

The Dangerous Waste Report summarizes a business’s dangerous waste activities in Washington. All sites with an active EPA/State ID Number must submit a Dangerous Waste Report. Some businesses are ...

The Lower Peshastin Creek Restoration Project cleaned up contamination, reconnected the creek to its historical channel, and improved vital habitat for threatened and endangered fish species.<br /> ...

We are starting two rulemakings to update Washington’s water quality standards to help address freshwater nutrient pollution and the harmful, toxic algal blooms that can result from it.

Lewis’ Moon Snail with its dark brown, hard operculum. Courtesy of Linda Schroeder—PNW Shell Club. With its easily recognizable shell (the largest found on Puget Sound beaches), we are certainly over ...

Coho salmon returning to rivers and streams often die before they can spawn. Photo by Roger Tabor, US Fish and Wildlife For over 20 years, scientists faced a toxic mystery: coho salmon returning to ...

In a new report from the Washington Department of Ecology, researchers investigated health data for 16 overburdened areas of Washington and found people in these communities face a higher death rate ...

A new Washington regulation will help reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from municipal solid waste landfills in the state. Methane has more than 80 times the global warming ...