County Installing Building Energy Labels Today

Arlington is installing energy performance labels on 14 county buildings today. The green labels are intended to tell citizens the buildings' carbon footprint, current energy use and planned...

Sierra Club to Hold Rally Outside Ballston Common Mall

It may be the most exciting thing to happen outside Ballston Common Mall since this happened last year. The Virginia Sierra Club is planning a made-for-TV rally tomorrow at the corner of Wilson...

Environmental Group Sounds Alarm About N. Va. Smog

Northern Virginia and the rest of the D.C. region ranks as the 6th smoggiest metropolitan area in the country, according to a new report by the group Environment America. Northern Virginia...

Arlington Encouraging Businesses to Close Their Doors

Arlington is launching a 'Retail Doors Campaign' as part of its ongoing Green Games business sustainability competition. The campaign encourages individual shops and restaurants to save energy by...

Alexandria Power Plant to Close

(Updated at 12:25 p.m.) The GenOn power plant along the Potomac River in Alexandria will be retired next year, in a victory for local environmental advocates who railed against the coal-fired plant's...

Free Paper Shredding Event on Saturday

Arlington County is now offering free paper shredding to residents on the first Saturday of every month. Since holiday weekends are excluded, July's paper shredding event will take place this...

Pete’s to Roll Out Pizza Delivery by Segway

Pete's New Haven Style Apizza in Clarendon may be the first D.C. area pizzeria to offer delivery via Segway. The three-month old restaurant will soon be launching delivery service, and co-owner...

‘Eco-Friendly’ Service Offers to Clean Stinky Trash Cans

If you have dirty, smelly trash cans, and don't want to clean them yourself, there's a new service that will do it for you for a monthly fee. Can-Scrubbers LLC recently started operating in...

Morning Notes

Board Approves Energy Plan Framework -- Last night the County Board approved an ambitious set of goals to dramatically reduce energy usage and cut carbon emissions in Arlington over the next 40...

Accident Involving Electric Car on Columbia Pike

We don't usually report on minor accidents that have no traffic impact, but it's not every day you see an accident involving an electric car. A Global Electric Motorcars GEM e4 and an SUV were...

Morning Notes

Mixed Signals During Fire Alarms at Senior Facility -- During fire alarms at The Jefferson senior living facility in Ballston, a recorded voice tells residents to evacuate the 21-story building...

Arlington, D.C. Get ‘F’ Grade For Smog

The American Lung Association has assigned Arlington and the District a failing grade for smog levels. In a report released this morning, the association said the Washington region has the 14th...

Celebrate Earth Day With Capital Bikeshare

This Friday is Earth Day, and the folks from Bike Arlington and Capital Bikeshare will be celebrating by showing off one of the new Bikeshare stations in Rosslyn. The event is being held at the...

Moran Remarks on One-Year Anniversary of BP Oil Spill

Rep. Jim Moran has released a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout is a sad reminder of the dangers...

Energy Plan Sets Ambitious Goals With Few Local Mandates

A draft copy of Arlington's Community Energy Plan sets the ambitious goal of reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions from 13.4 metric tons per county resident today to 3 metric tons per resident by...