Tag: environment

By Brianne McConnell | [email protected]   The plan to redevelop the site along the Potomac River, where the old Potomac River Generating Station sits, has cleared...

To the editor: In the April 27 Alexandria Times article “City readies for Metro ribbon-cutting,” Mayor Justin Wilson is quoted as stating that federal agencies...

To the editor:  I write to remind all who celebrate the opening of the Potomac Yard Metro Station that many Alexandria residents who support public...

  To the editor: The announcement of the opening of a new Metro station in Potomac Yards coincides with Earth Day this year. It should be...

  It’s human nature to avoid bad news. Sometimes we delay a needed medical exam for fear of what will be found. Sometimes we avoid...

By Leslie Golden | [email protected] On April 23, the city’s Environmental Policy Commission and Alexandria Renew presented the Ellen Picker- ing Environmental Excellence Award...

To the editor: Cities and “natural stream restoration” contractors are cheating the Chesapeake Bay by inflating the environmental credits they get for stream restoration projects....

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Is reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay worth cutting down 269 trees in Alexandria? This is the question at the...

To the editor: I read with interest the opinion published in your last edition, entitled “Wrong approach for stream restoration.” Bashing Dave Rosgen’s natural stream...

To the editor: The biggest problem with the so-called natural channel design approach to stream “restoration” for us in the greater Washington D.C. region is...