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 ...

OLYMPIA – 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.

Ecology determined at least 22 alkali wetlands were damaged between January and April 2021 after King Ranch excavated deep pools within the shallow wetlands. A 23rd location was discovered in Spring ...

OROVILLE – Communities along the Okanogan River from Oroville to Brewster are likely to experience high water along the shoreline through the summer and into September, due to greater-than-normal ...

Landowners Michael Schmidt, et al. and lessee Ron Fode were fined $103,000 for illegally irrigating 65 acres of alfalfa. Landowner Ron Fode was fined $206,000 for illegally irrigating 130 acres 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 ...

OLYMPIA – 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 ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER – 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 ...

OLYMPIA – 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.

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 ...

OLYMPIA – 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 ...