We have a new Community Engagement Plan describing how we seek to engage with communities impacted by our work. This is part ...

This grant program is part of a larger multi-partner effort to reduce toxics and protect the health of the river through technical assistance, monitoring and research, and education and outreach.

On April 8, we declared a statewide drought emergency, the fourth in a row for the Yakima Basin. Here are the water supply ...

An Ecology-built air sensor that helps provide real-time air quality information about fine particle pollution in communities throughout our state. This week we aim to increase air quality awareness — ...

We protect the air by implementing Zero Emission Vehicle standards, Clean Car Law, reducing diesel exhaust, and managing the Volkswagen enforcement actions that resulted from federal and state Clean ...

Through monitoring and sampling efforts across the country and in Washington, we know that the two main types of wastewater discharges that are likely to contain some level of PFAS are municipal ...

PAHs are a group of more than 100 different chemicals and generally occur as complex mixtures. They can come from natural sources or human activity. They are known to cause cancer and other health ...

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 ...

Ecology is starting the rulemaking process to amend Chapters 173-18, -20, -22, -26, and -27 under the Shoreline Management Act. Add requirements for local governments to address the impact of sea ...

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 ...

Old fluorescent light fixtures in schools and daycares can be harmful to students and staff. In 1979, the U.S. finally took action against the dangers of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), banning the ...

The drought declared in April and expanded in June continues with no end in sight. A group of state and federal water supply experts — the Water Supply Availability Committee — says there’s not enough ...