On July 10, we received national recognition by national U.S. Water Alliance for our innovative Floodplains by Design program ...

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 ...

This grant is the latest in a series awarded for cleaning up the historically contaminated Port Gardner Bay. Ecology is now ...

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

The Recycling Reform Act will improve Washington’s residential recycling system. Passed by the legislature in 2025, the law creates an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for residential ...

Three Washington counties have been designated primary natural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and are ...

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

With its easily recognizable shell (the largest found on Puget Sound beaches), we are certainly over the moon for this month's critter: the Moon Snail.

Ecology proposes to revise Chapter 173-337 WAC: Safer Products Restrictions and Reporting to adopt restrictions and reporting requirements related to the intentional use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...

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 ...