Seattle Public Utilities is monitoring the potential for street sweeping to reduce the amount of tire wear pollutants, including 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ), on the roadway. This new information will help ...

Electron Hydro LLC will pay a reduced penalty and contribute to a water quality and fish habitat improvement project under a settlement agreement with the Washington Department of Ecology. The ...

SPOKANE – The Washington Department of Ecology has fined Wade and Teresa King, owners of King Ranch, $267,540 for illegally damaging at least 23 alkali wetlands located near Park Lake in Grant County.

Water from Lake Osoyoos is flowing over the Zosel Dam weir near Oroville. Watch for high flows down the Okanogan River. Communities along the Okanogan River from Oroville to Brewster are likely to ...

MOSES LAKE – Landowners near Moses Lake have been fined for illegally pumping more than 500 million gallons of groundwater from the declining Odessa aquifer. In June, the Washington Department of ...

SEATTLE – The Washington Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are jointly issuing fines to Seattle and King County for violating conditions of their federal consent ...

How Washington invests cap-and-invest auction revenues to prepare for climate change will be captured in public reporting that the Department of Ecology is responsible for publishing under the Climate ...

Get ready to take a dive into the habitat and wildlife that call the Hanford Reach National Monument home for the next edition of our virtual Let's Talk About Hanford series – Hanford Wildlife. Join ...

With a new wetland mitigation bank being approved in Vancouver, Wash., private and public sector developers can now purchase mitigation credits to offset unavoidable impacts from their building ...

As you hit the road this week, give us a brake. The Ecology Youth Corps’ teenage litter crews began picking up Washington roads and highways today and will continue working through August. Ecology ...

OLYMPIA – Public agencies experiencing hardships related to drought conditions may now be eligible for funds to ease drought-related effects. Beginning today, the Washington Department of Ecology is ...

The Washington Department of Ecology issued $138,800 in penalties of $1,000 or more from July 1 – Sept. 30, 2023. A detailed list of the violations and resulting penalties is in the table below.