The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive
plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of
energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under new legislation
proposed by five D.C. Council members.
The bill — which would also enhance the city’s green
building standards and authorize the mayor to enter regional agreements with
Virginia and Maryland to cut greenhouse gas emissions — comes at a moment of
international reckoning with the problem of climate change.
