Climate

Spring has sprung rapidly this year in Washington. Snow is history, and greenery has exploded, overwhelming the cold, bleak landscape in just a few weeks.

City lawmakers in the District of Columbia on Tuesday voted to advance a bill that would set a 100% renewable energy mandate by 2032 and require that all public transportation and privately owned fleet vehicles in the city be zero-emission…

A unanimous D.C. Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a major climate change legislation with some last-minute revisions that worry environmentalists.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to legislation that would move the District’s power grid to entirely renewable energy sources by 2032, a goal that places the city in the vanguard of local governments seeking to tackle…

The effort is the most ambitious renewable energy goal of any city or state in the country.

Urgent climate change warnings are piling up: just last week, the federal government released its latest, most alarming National Climate Assessment.

On the afternoon of Black Friday, the Trump administration stealthily rolled out the voluminous National Climate Assessment, which describes — region by region across the United States — how global warming is affecting our weather, our…

It is up to 17 degrees hotter than the coolest areas inside the District.