The District Department of the Environment (DDOE) is responsible for the natural and indoor environments in the District of Columbia. DDOE’s work includes direct assistance to residents and businesses, policymaking, and monitoring and enforcement.
Information
- Location:
- Washington, DC, 20002
- Phone:
- 202-535-2600
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Bike to Work Day 2009Created about 8 months ago
Light Bulb GiveawayCreated on December 15, 2008 at 7:48am
Events
18 past eventsSee All
- DDOE Live Online Chat with Dir...
green.dc.gov
Monday, June 15 at 12:00pm - Wildlife Habitat Workshop
Congress Heights Recreation Center
Saturday, June 6 at 9:15am - Informational Event and Commun...
All Souls Unitarian Church
Saturday, June 6 at 9:00am - District of Columbia Citizen T...
Metropolitan Washington Council of ...
Wednesday, June 3 at 10:00am - DDOE's Anacostia River Environ...
Anacostia Park
Friday, May 8 at 9:00am - Potomac River Watershed Cleanup
Oxon Run Park
Saturday, April 4 at 10:00am - 2009 Annual Conservation Summit
SunTrust Conference Center
Thursday, April 2 at 12:30pm - Earth Hour 2009
Various
Saturday, March 28 at 8:30pm - Washington Home & Garden Show
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Thursday, March 19 at 11:00am - DC Environmental Film Festival
52 venues
Wednesday, March 11 at 9:00am
DC Department of the Environment Penn Quarter Living rounds up the bag giveaways...
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Operational since February of 2006, Penn Quarter Living is a regular news and information site focused on living, working, going out and generally enjoying all that downtown Washington DC’s East End has to offer. ...
DC Department of the Environment USA Today!
Washington, D.C. shoppers face nation's first fee for using plastic bags - Green House - USATODAY.co
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Washington, D.C. shoppers face nation's first fee for using plastic bags - Green House - USATODAY.com
DC Department of the Environment Here's ABC News on the bag fee.
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The District of Columbia is the first municipality in the country to charge consumers 5 cents for each paper or plastic disposable bag they receive from a retailer.
DC Department of the Environment DDOE Facebook fans: help us out! We have sent "Skip the Bag" cash register decals to every District business with a food or beverage license. Have you seen them up? Please tell us where here.
DC Department of the Environment Wash Post editorializes in favor of the bag law.
www.washingtonpost.com
THE DISTRICT is still days away from a new tax on plastic and paper bags, and the complaining has already started. That's understandable given the fundamental change in habit that people are being asked to make. Nonetheless, the new law is a worthy effort aimed at reducing local litter and cleani...
DC Department of the Environment Here's Fox 5 on the bag fee. Great story, but it would be nice if reporters stopped calling it a tax...
www.myfoxdc.com
You may remember the D.C. City Council passed a bill called the Anacostia River Clean Up and Protection Act. It's designed to cut down on a major source of litter-- plastic bags.
www.nbcwashington.com
Local Girl Scouts will distribute free, reusable shopping bags on New Year's Day to green the environment.
DC Department of the Environment Happy holidays! The District's 5-cent bag fee is coming FRIDAY! Are you ready?
DC Department of the Environment Examiner interviews WASA's trash skimmer operator.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Starting Jan. 1, the District will levy on shoppers a 5-cent fee on disposable plastic bags. The money raised will help pay for the cleanup of the Anacostia River, where some of the bags end up. Richard Walls helps pick up those bags and some 120 tons of trash each month on a skimmer boat f
DC Department of the Environment Who will be DDOE fan #600?
DC Department of the Environment Put your trash where it belongs!
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Last weekend I participated in my first river clean-up. The effort was organized by the D.C. chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, on the Anacostia Ri
DC Department of the Environment Greening the Postal Service!
www.washingtonpost.com
From horse-drawn wagons to stage coaches, trains and 18-wheelers, the U.S. Postal Service has used virtually every mode of transportation to deliver the mail. But a New York lawmaker says it's time for the mail service to start using at least 20,000 electric vehicles to stamp out the agency's...
DC Department of the Environment Los Angeles Times on A Day Without a Bag program.
A Day Without a Bag seeks to reduce 6 billion plastic bags used in L.A. each year | Greenspace | Los
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What’s colored and plastic and found all over L.A.? Plastic bags. More than 6 billion of them are used by county residents each year, according to the 2007 report "An Overview of Carryout Bags in Los Angeles County." This Thursday,...
washington.bizjournals.com
D.C. agencies to move headquarters to 1200 First St. NE
DC Department of the Environment Happy goes to Copenhagen.
www.washingtonpost.com
A delegation of Washington area students and one squirmy diamondback terrapin named Happy were beamed into Thursday's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to help advance a solution for curbing carbon emissions.
