Energy

The transit agency says it will put $65 million toward a myriad of sustainability efforts by 2025

Earlier this year, the Office of Planning proposed a text amendment which would encourage solar farming citywide, expanding the potential for renewable energy usage in DC. As the Zoning Commission prepares to rule on the amendment later…

Solar energy has long been available for DC homeowners, but apartment and condo dwellers have only had the option of subscribing to green energy produced outside the District. Thanks to a new program sponsored by DC-based CleanChoice…

Three of D.C.'s top office owners have recently set aside valuable square footage on the rooftops of downtown buildings for solar panels and are donating the clean energy they produce.

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

WASHINGTON — If D.C. were a state, it would rank first again on an annual list of the top 10 states for leadership in energy and environmental design, the most widely-used green building rating system.

A proposed solar array would deliver power to the people of Ward 8.

Business owners face plenty of challenges these days; one of them should not be the damaging results of climate change. But businesses are just as vulnerable as individuals to the extreme weather events made more frequent and more…

In the battle over clean energy and global warming, the District of Columbia rates barely a speck on the nation’s landscape, a tiny 68 square miles out of the nation’s nearly 3.8 million square miles.

According to a U.N. report released Monday, the future of the planet looks dire. Tens of millions of people flooded by sea level rise, hundreds of millions suffering through severe droughts. Mass die-offs of 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs.…

The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under new legislation proposed by five D.C.…