Fire danger is high in many areas because of hot, dry weather. Most of the state is still in a drought. Burn bans are in place across Washington. Check with your local fire district before lighting ...

NORPAC makes newsprint, printing, and specialty papers out of thermomechanical pulp, deinked pulp from recycled newsprint, and bleached kraft pulp from the Nippon Dynawave pulp and paper mill. It ...

Working for Ecology offers great benefits — health care, retirement, vacation. But the biggest benefit of all is knowing that your work is helping create a cleaner, healthier, more beautiful state for ...

Businesses in Washington can take advantage of our services to help them apply pollution prevention (P2) best practices, such as the following: Reduce waste and pollution. Reduce costs and save money ...

Icicle Creek, a tributary to the Wenatchee River near Leavenworth in Chelan County, is a source of water for a variety of demands that sometimes go unmet. Streamflows support domestic water supply, ...

As a subset of commercial enterprises, mobile businesses have unique challenges related to stormwater and pollution prevention that will be better understood by a focused study. In this project, King ...

In Jan. 2021, the parent company of Millennium Bulk Terminals, Longview filed for bankruptcy and withdrew from the lease with Alcoa. Alcoa's Northwest Alloys, who owns the property, now operates the ...

Sometimes called a "petition for review," an appeal is the legal challenge to a shoreline permit decision made by us or a local government. Shoreline permit appeals are made to the state Shorelines ...

Under RCW 42.56.120(2), we are allowed to recover costs directly related to the copying of public records. We cannot charge a fee for inspection of records, or staff time spent on locating records or ...

Air quality burn bans are called by our agency, local clean air agencies, and tribes when air is unhealthy. A burn ban limits wood stove use and outdoor burning. Use the map below to find out which ...

Emergency conditions may require Ecology managers to temporarily suspend operations. Examples of emergency conditions include severe or inclement weather, natural disasters such as earthquake or flood ...

The refinery began operating in 1955. Owned by Marathon and doing business as Tesoro, it processes crude oil into a variety of petroleum products and has about 330 employees and 280 contractors that ...