Tips for finding safer school supplies that protect students's health and the environment, and support learning all year long ...

We'd like your input on a legal agreement and other documents to clean up PFAS contamination at Paine Field in Everett.

Join Ecology Director Casey Sixkiller for an update and community feedback session about PFAS contamination in East Selah.

We're sharing the notable updates we are proposing for the Sand and Gravel General permit as well as information about how ...

OLYMPIA – Liberty Marine Corporation received a $32,000 penalty from the Washington Department of Ecology for a 2023 incident in which 199 gallons of waste oil were discharged into Puget Sound while ...

Water Quality Combined Funding program applications open July 22 The application period for state fiscal year 2027 funding is now open. Applications can be submitted July 22, 2025, through Sept. 3, ...

Project site map. Click to enlarge. Free Flow Power Project 101, LLC (FFP Project) proposes to build an off-channel energy storage system next to the Columbia River in Goldendale. The system would ...

The “wettest” county east of the Cascades in June was Pend Oreille, which checked in with less than an inch of rain - a whopping 0.8 inches. Which, for the record, was still Pend Oreille’s ...

Join our Virtual Open House on August 19 from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. The Department of Ecology is updating the rules that shape how local governments manage and protect shorelines across the state along ...

On Sept. 10, a super massive plume of smoke from Oregon wildfires began moving into Washington. The record-shattering smoke storm of 2020 is now behind us. Rain clouds have replaced the choking fog of ...

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.