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DOEE encourages all District businesses to incorporate sound environmental policies and practices in their daily operations.
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ReThread DC, the District of Columbia’s textile reuse and recovery initiative, provides local residents and vi
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DOEE offers a series of rebates for homeowners to install their own trees, rain barrels, or rain gardens or remove impervious surfaces from their property.
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Obtain an NPDES discharge permit in order to discharge storm water from the separate storm sewer system in the District.
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In 2016, the Council of the District of Columbia amended the law requiring commercial Properties to keep the
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DC's "Bag Law" is intended to change consumer behavior by encouraging District residents to use reusable bags, thereby reducing bag pollution in waterways.
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The Smarter DC Challenge is a no-cost green business engagement program that will create a culture of sustainability in the District by transforming one thousand businesses, organizations, and institutions into sustainability stewards and champions by 2020.
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Soil erosion and sediment control minimizes erosion and prevents sediment pollution from entering the Potomac River, the Anacostia River, their tributaries and the District's sewer system.
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The map below is intended to estimate buildings' solar potential in Census tracts with median incomes less than or equal to 80% of area median income.
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DDOE works with the US Department of Defense to provide technical review and guidance for installation restoration projects at active military sites and formerly used defense sites in the District .
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DOEE works with the Stormwater Advisory Panel and the Technical Working Group to effectively reduce stormwater throughout the City.
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Provide comments on DOEE's Stormwater Retrofit Plan which establishes performance metrics for storm drain retrofit projects.