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**FILE** U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan held a press conference to announce the investment of nearly $900 million to electricity school bus fleets in states across the country (WI photo)

Everyone Wants Electric School Buses Now

by Willy Blackmore, Special to The Informer via Word in Black June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

Writer, birder and show host Christian Cooper bands a herring gull with NYC Bird Alliance scientists atop the Javits network of green roofs as National Geographic documents it for an episode on Christian's Extraordinary Birder show. (Courtesy of NYC Bird Alliance)

Christian Cooper: From Racist Central Park Encounter with a ‘Karen’ to Emmy-Winning Birdwatcher

by Stacy M. Brown June 18, 2024June 18, 2024

Protesters from Climate Defiance are tackled and arrested by Capitol Police on June 12 after disrupting the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park in D.C. (Courtesy of Climate Defiance)

Climate Justice Activists Arrested for Disrupting Congressional Baseball Game

by Ashleigh Fields June 16, 2024July 3, 2024

The Potomac River at dusk, as seen from Roosevelt Island (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)

Signing Off: A Look Back at Two Years of The Washington Informer’s ‘Our Earth’ Page

by Kayla Benjamin June 5, 2024July 3, 2024

A municipally owned and operated storage lot on a residential street in Capitol Heights, Md. still contains vehicles and equipment, even after the town cleaned out most other junk that had been in the lot for about a year. Photo May 19. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Capitol Heights Clears Junk, Says Nothing About What’s Next for Residential Storage Lot

by Kayla Benjamin May 29, 2024June 24, 2024

**FILE** Joe Biden (Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)

Biden Administration Sets New Standards for Voluntary Carbon Markets to Drive Climate Action

by Stacy M. Brown May 29, 2024July 3, 2024

An Opus Avenue resident looks out at the garbage cans, construction equipment and other items kept in storage on the property that abuts her yard on April 16. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Capitol Heights Left Hundreds of Old Garbage Bins in a Residential Neighborhood for a Year

by Kayla Benjamin May 22, 2024May 24, 2024

Members of the air quality monitoring team at the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment stand next to the new Ward 8 air quality monitor on the roof of Bald Eagle Recreation Center during the ribbon cutting May 7. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Launches First Ward 8 Air Quality Monitor in Bellevue

by Kayla Benjamin May 13, 2024July 3, 2024

boiling water in pot on burner

D.C. Boil Water Advisory Lifted, Tap Water Deemed Safe to Use

by WI Web Staff May 10, 2024May 10, 2024

**FILE** DC Water advised residents in several Northwest neighborhoods on May 9 to boil their tap water for at least one minute and let cool before drinking or cooking with it. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)

Water Boil Advisory in Effect for Some Northwest D.C. Areas

by WI Web Staff May 9, 2024May 10, 2024