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Whatcom County is making progress on its project to manage asbestos-laden sediment and control flooding in Swift Creek while also piloting a project to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In 2024, we launched Ecology’s Utility Rates Dashboard to help people understand utility rates across Washington.

We are dedicating this special edition of Let's Talk About Hanford to a community favorite: the Hanford elk, aka the "Rattlesnake Hills Elk."

Thanks to a multi-agency cleanup partnership and over $100 million of MTCA funds, Bellingham's waterfront, once a heavy industrial zone, is now the heart of a growing neighborhood.

It's SepticSmart Week, an annual event focused on the proper care and maintenance of septic systems. We also celebrate some of the great work we've done with partners to reduce pollution.

The Eatonville Landfill cleanup is almost complete, and you can watch it happen in this timelapse video.

The 2023-2025 biennium outcomes report is now available as an interactive story map, highlighting water quality improvements we funded between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2025.

A Bellingham-area private landfill where incinerator ash was disposed in the 1980s has met the criteria to safely discontinue environmental monitoring. 

Ecology expands air monitoring in East and South Tacoma, and undertakes other projects to help mitigate air pollution from truck traffic using Bridge Point Settlement funds.

No‑till farming — planting directly into last year’s crop residue — protects soil health, retains moisture, and keeps sediment out of the streams and rivers.