Climate Change

In the year 2080, the sea level on the Potomac River and Anacostia River will be more than three feet higher than it is currently. There will be twice as many heat emergency days as there were in 2018 — meaning nearly the entire summer…

Washington is announcing a goal of retrofitting or removing all of its flood-prone buildings by 2050, the first major U.S. city to set such a policy.

Karl Racine seeks private legal counsel for "Exxon knew" investigation, potential lawsuit

Locals are happy to talk about their climate. Global warming? That's more complicated.

The District of Columbia's top lawyer is preparing for a potential courtroom fight against one of the biggest oil companies in the world.

Want to know what climate change will bring, sixty years from now? To get a taste of D.C.’s future weather, no need to wait. Just hop in the car, hit the road, and drive 970 miles southwest, to Greenwood, Mississippi.

The Navy is weighing whether to construct a large flood wall at Washington Navy Yard on the Anacostia River, a project that could ultimately make neighboring developments more vulnerable to flooding, Bloomberg reported Friday.

The Navy is considering erecting a 14-foot flood wall around the Washington Navy Yard to protect the historic complex along the Anacostia River from rising sea levels, internal Department of Defense documents show.

On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, and we became one of only two countries (along with Syria) not signed onto the accord. Four days later, on June 5, I stood…

The nation’s capital is focused on efforts to thrive in the face of climate change, inequality and technological disruption.

The DC Council on Tuesday passed one of the nation’s most ambitious clean energy bills to date, yet another sign that while the Trump administration moves backward on climate action, cities and states are continuing to move forward, even in…

Washington, D.C. will be among the first cities in the nation to transition to 100 percent renewable energy, under a bill that passed a final vote today by the D.C. Council. The bill updates the District’s renewable portfolio standard,…

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…