2023-25 Strategic Plan

Our goals

Support and engage our communities, customers, and employees
Goal 1 details

Reduce and prepare for climate impacts

Goal 2 details

 

Prevent and reduce toxic threats and pollution

Goal 3 details

Protect and manage our state's waters

Goal 4 details

Goal 1: Support and engage our communities, customers, and employees

We strive to equitably deliver our services and resources, strategically embrace innovation and new technology, and work to continually improve our performance and accountability. We foster a diverse, responsive, and welcoming workforce that operates with excellence and professionalism. Our leadership is committed to creating a culture where our workforce and those affected by our work are respected and included.

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Learn about progress we are making

• Regulated customer survey
• Environmental Justice Assessments
• Community engagement

Goal 2: Reduce and prepare for climate impacts

Ecology is preparing for the future by understanding and reducing the effects of climate change on our communities, environment, and economy. We will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote community resilience, and prevent and remediate negative impacts with an emphasis on overburdened communities and vulnerable populations. We will do this work while supporting economic growth and a strong economy.

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Learn about progress we are making

• California and Québec show interest in a shared carbon market with Washington
• Not your grandparent's auto shop - grant program inspire students to pursue secondary educational opportunities and careers in renewable energies
• First Washington cap-and-invest offset credits issued
• Refrigerant Management Program (Hydrofluocarbons)
• New report shows air pollution hits Washington’s most vulnerable the hardest

Goal 3: Prevent and reduce toxic threats and pollution

We work to prevent and reduce toxic threats and pollution and manage legacy contamination. We make strategic efforts to eliminate the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income populations across Washington.

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Learn about progress we are making

• Safer cosmetics are coming to a store near you. 
• Cleaning up: PFAS contamination in the Lower Issaquah Valley
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were banned 45 years ago. Why are they still a problem?
• E-Cycle Washington

Goal 4: Protect and manage our state's waters

We provide a coordinated and collaborative approach to protecting and managing water. Ecology's work ensures Washington has high-quality water resources for people, aquatic species, and thriving ecological systems to meet current and future Tribal, agricultural, and community needs.

Our continued attention and protection of our state waters are essential. We commit to partnering and engaging with Tribes; businesses; the agriculture industry; communities, including a focus on vulnerable populations and overburdened communities; interest groups; and other state and local agencies. We are conducting research, gathering data, and making investments to restore, protect, and preserve our state’s waters now and for future generations.

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Learn about progress we are making

• When pee is pollution: How wastewater treatment plants slow the flow into Puget Sound
• Looking back and looking forward on our beach monitoring season
• Expanded polystyrene ban
• New budget air filters to hit market
• Cleaning up: Sampling at Gas Works Park slated to begin in April
• Bellingham Bay cleanup