Tag: environmental council of alexandria

Your View: We must protect what natural resources we have left

  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...

Your Views: Environmental Council for Silberberg

To the editor: The Environmental Council of Alexandria endorses Allison Silberberg for mayor. ECA is a nonprofit advocacy organization formed by residents of Alexandria. The...

Your Views: Use science, not politics

To the editor: Alexandria is a small town that is controlled by an ancient natural watershed. Today’s city programs to address biodiversity loss and...

Environmentalists question Taylor Run stream restoration plans

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...

Your Views: Don’t bulldoze Taylor Run

To the editor: The City of Alexandria wants to re-engineer 1,900 feet of the Taylor Run stream channel in Chinquapin Park between T.C. Williams High...

Your Views: A real Eco City would save the Pin Oak

To the editor: Below is a letter the Environmental Council of Alexandria sent to Mayor Justin Wilson, the Alexandria City Council, ACPS Superintendent Gregory Hutchings...

Your Views: Flooding is a hidden by-product of densification

To the editor: Mayor Justin Wilson's monthly newsletter’s article on the July 23 flooding seems designed to indirectly respond to your July 30 editorial, “A...

Letter to the Editor: Citizen group forms again to save PY...

To the editor: Forty years ago, a citizen group named the Daingerfield Island Protective Society stopped an interchange from being built off the George Washington...