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Join our team to make a difference! It is our mission to protect, preserve, and enhance Washington’s environment for current and future generations. Our partnerships protect and sustain healthy land, ...
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Washington's Shoreline Management Act (SMA) applies to private projects on privately owned lands and to private, local government, and state government actions on local or state government lands. The ...
"That mark that will be found by examining the bed and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark ...
Washington is home to some of the nation's most productive farmlands. The way landowners and operators manage their lands also has important impacts on water quality. We work with landowners, ...
Our accreditation team helps large and small laboratories to become successful environmental laboratories doing work in and/or for Washington state. Accreditation ensures that laboratories can ...
We, along with local clean air agencies, monitor the air to make sure carbon monoxide is within healthy standards. Today, all areas of Washington meet the carbon monoxide air quality standard. Past ...
Your input is valuable to our decision-making process. We post water right documents for notice or comment. Documents posted for comment have a link to our online comment form. Other documents are ...
Our Manchester Environmental Laboratory is Washington's primary environmental laboratory, providing scientific services to local, state, federal, and Tribal governments. We have a full staff of ...
International markets can and do impact Washington's recycling system dramatically. Our Recycling Development Center (RDC) works to improve Washington's recycling commodities market, as needs for ...
Televisions (including those with cathode ray tubes). Computers and monitors. Portable, laptop computers, tablets, etc. Learn what policies to follow and how to recycle your e-waste properly. If you ...
If a business emits air pollution, it is probably regulated by Ecology or a local clean air agency. This may require registering every year. A business must pay a yearly fee based on the amount of air ...