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The D.C. Attorney General’s Office has sent a letter to the PSC opposing the Exelon takeover of Pepco.See this Washington Post story about it, published last night: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/district-officials-weigh-in-...

On May 8, the DC Department of General Services (DGS) announced that it will be deploying cutting-edge technology that manages heating and cooling systems to reduce energy consumption. BuildingIQ’s Predictive Energy Optimization...

On May 19, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released its biennial City Energy Efficiency Scorecard, which ranked the District third in the country! DC made a huge jump from 2013, making it one of the most...

Washington, DC earned third place among park-friendly cities, in the annual ranking released by the Trust for Public Land, a national organization that advocates for parks in neighborhoods across the country.  The report states that 97% of DC...

Arctic Nightmare I had a terrible nightmare: President Mitt Romney approved Shell Oil's drilling plans for the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. He did it even though his own Department of the Interior calculated that the...

The 11th DC Green Festival will take place on June 5,6, and 7, at the DC Convention Center (Friday 12-6PM, Saturday 10AM - 6PM, Sunday 10AM-5PM).  Come see and hear lots of speakers and exhibitors on a wide range of topics in environmentalism...

The chapter submitted testimony March 25 to the Metro board in support of the proposed apartment building at the Takoma Metro station. The project by EYA developers would replace a Metro parking lot located next to the station. The Metro board...

The chapter has urged Mayor Muriel Bowser to implement the MoveDC plan adopted last year by the District Department of Transportation (DDoT) after extensive public input. That plan calls for the the development or expansion of a variety of...

 Hey Mr. Green,You’re constantly harping about clean electrical energy, but how do we even know how clean or dirty our electricity actually is in the first place?—Janet, in Washington, D.C.Well, yeah, okay, I do harp a lot about...

The National Sierra Club has recently released the following video to highlight what's at stake in the Keystone XL pipeline debate.http://content.sierraclub.org/beyondoil/keystone-xl?utm_source=sierraclub&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=...