Conditions changed quickly at the end of August. A combination of lightning-sparked wildfires, hot and dry weather, and light ...
On the morning of July 18, a dual-tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel left the roadway on U.S.
Ecology is working with other state and local government agencies to reduce nitrate contamination so everyone in the Lower ...
We are starting a new statewide study to evaluate potential environmental impacts surrounding the production and distribution ...
We are partnering with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner, Emergency Management Division, and the Department of Natural ...
It is far less expensive to prevent an oil spill than it is to clean one up. No spill is acceptable — once oil is released into the environment, harmful consequences have already occurred. All oil ...
The Dungeness water management rule was adopted in late 2012 to protect flows in a critical basin for endangered fish. Elements of the Dungeness water management rule include: Setting instream flow ...
Solid waste incinerators (excluding hog fuel burners and crematoria facilities) Municipal waste landfills Special incinerator ash landfills or monofills Inert waste and demolition waste landfills All ...
In the Yakima Basin, a third consecutive year of drought has caused historically low reservoir storage and streamflows. To address those conditions, the Washington Department of Ecology is issuing an ...
The Washington Department of Ecology and RAN General Partnership, and its owner Rick Alamwala, have reached a settlement over a $20,000 penalty resulting from the alleged illegal irrigation of 40 ...
As the fall rains return to Washington, it’s easy to forget that we just exited one of the warmest summers in our state’s recorded history. June to August of 2025 was, according to the Washington ...
The Washington Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are jointly issuing penalties to Seattle and King County for violating conditions of the federal consent decrees ...