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Category: environmental heroes

Features about people making a significant difference on an environmental level, whether by removing invasive species to restore a habitat, picking up trash or monitoring waterways.

Posted on January 1, 2026January 5, 2026 awareness birds climate change D.C. Department of Energy and Environment environmental heroes invasive species plastic trash renewal river/waterway health trash Uncategorized urban wildlife

FORE! Legacy trash no longer par for historic golf course in nation’s capital

NORTHEAST WASHINGTON, D.C.—On a foggy, finger-numbing Sunday morning in early December, chief “litter-gitter” Don Bates guides his jaunty crew of six to a sleek, low-slung...

Posted on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 awareness conservation in courts e-cology environmental heroes Montgomergy County, MD conservation river/waterway health

Science Matters: D.C. area creek off limits to homebuilder, court rules

WASHINGTON—With the federal government intent on shredding safeguards for some streams and wetlands, environmentalists were parched for proof that not all waterways need be in...

Posted on September 26, 2018 awareness climate change environmental heroes post-coal energy renewal solar power

Let There Be Sunlight: Switch to solar keeps historic Appalachian coal camp on energy map

Benham, Ky—Black rock buried thousands of feet under the Cumberland Mountains might have put Benham on the energy map, but sunlight beaming from 93 million...

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E-cology Reports

Book cover Greetings Readers, February 10, 2021 by Elizabeth McGowan - Elizabeth McGowan here. Please click to my author website to learn about my journey to publishing Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America. You can sign up for my NEW newsletter about riding and writing, and also invite me to be a speaker for your book group, cancer support group or other cherished institution.… Read more >
Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >
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