The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to... Read More

The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), in partnership with the Interagency Commission on School Construction (IAC), is pleased to announce the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Decarbonizing Public Schools Pilot Program to help Local Education Agencies (LEAs) develop capacity and advance strategies for promoting clean and efficient... Read More

The City of Frederick lowered its monthly electricity usage by more than 2 percent and planted more than 500 new trees in 2021, even as some aldermen express concern that the city needs to do more to fight the effects of climate change. See the... Read More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has an online tool, with recently added data sets and functionality. This tool provides an easy way to better understand county resilience in terms of flood hazards, critical facilities, jobs, businesses, and more. Users choose their county and... Read More

ICLEI has announced an incredible opportunity to develop and deploy highly visible and replicable projects, which demonstrate innovation in local climate action that is community led, data driven, and lasting. Made possible through funding from Google.org, ICLEI is accepting expressions of interest from nonprofit and... Read More

Maryland state law requires that every new school facility and full renovation be a high-performance building and meet stringent state and international building codes. In an average year, Maryland’s 24 school districts perform renovation or major maintenance on more than 200 of the state’s 1,400... Read More

The Regional Commissioner (RC) for Public Buildings Service (PBS) in the National Capital Region (NCR) manages several hundred Federal personnel, a large annual operating, leasing and capital budget, and the operations, maintenance and construction of Federal office space, United States courthouses, state-of-the-art laboratories, and warehouses... Read More

A Senate panel on Monday swiftly rejected a Republican proposal to repeal the Virginia Clean Economy Act, a 2020 law that commits the state’s electric grid to decarbonizing by 2050. See the full story at Virginia Mercury. More DMV News Report: More Than a Third... Read More

The U.S. Departments of Transportation and Energy have announced nearly $5 billion that will be made available under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program established by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to build out a national electric vehicle charging network, an important... Read More

A Democrat-controlled committee rejected a bill that would have allowed Virginia local governments to adopt stricter energy efficiency codes than the state, with senators fretting it could prevent badly needed affordable housing from being built. See the full story at Virginia Mercury. More DMV News... Read More