by Shere Abbott | What’s with the weather? Last winter, two big, back-to-back snow storms, nicknamed “Snowmaggedon”, shut down the nation’s capital and kept children from school and many people from work for more than a week. Then it got brutally hot—so hot, in fact, that in January 2011 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [...]

by Dan Barry | What will a changing climate mean for the District of Columbia? How can we ensure that the District remains the economic engine for our area and the place where people want to live and businesses want to grow? How can the District mitigate climate change by reducing emissions, while also [...]