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A portion of the birds that Lights Out DC volunteers found dead from collisions in 2021 (Courtesy of City Wildlife)
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Flight Risk: Migrating Birds are Dying from Window Crashes in D.C.

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

The D.C. Council has passed the Migratory Local Wildlife Protection Act, which requires new buildings to meet certain bird-safe design standards, in an effort to reduce bird collisions with buildings.

An in-person session at the Environmental Justice Symposium titled “Environmental Justice Issues in Washington, DC” featured: Dennis Chestnut, board chair of the Ward 7 Resilience Hub Community Coalition; ANC commissioners Rhonda Hamilton (Buzzard Point) and Sebrena Rhodes (Ivy City); Xavier Brown, UDC’s Anacostia ambassador and director of C2 Academy; Anthony David environmental justice community organizer with Empower DC; and Tené Lewis, volunteer leader with NAACP DC’s Campaign to Reduce Lead Exposure and Asthma. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)
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DMV Academics and Activists Host 10th Annual Environmental Justice Symposium

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin September 18, 2024September 18, 2024
Members of the environmental group Extinction Rebellion DC wore costumes to highlight endangered species at a Sept. 3 press conference protesting the rehabilitation plan at Rock Creek Park Golf Course. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)
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Controversial Rock Creek Park Golf Course Renovation Receives Final Green Light

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A municipally owned and operated storage lot on a residential street in Capitol Heights, Md. still contains vehicles and equipment, even after the town cleaned out most other junk that had been in the lot for about a year. Photo May 19. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
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Capitol Heights Clears Junk, Says Nothing About What’s Next for Residential Storage Lot

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin May 29, 2024June 24, 2024
An Opus Avenue resident looks out at the garbage cans, construction equipment and other items kept in storage on the property that abuts her yard on April 16. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
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Capitol Heights Left Hundreds of Old Garbage Bins in a Residential Neighborhood for a Year

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin May 22, 2024May 24, 2024
Members of the air quality monitoring team at the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment stand next to the new Ward 8 air quality monitor on the roof of Bald Eagle Recreation Center during the ribbon cutting May 7. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
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D.C. Launches First Ward 8 Air Quality Monitor in Bellevue

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin May 13, 2024July 3, 2024
Jaren Hill Lockridge with her children, Stefan, Jhene and Jheni (Courtesy photo)
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Moms and Movements: How DMV Mothers Share Activism With Their Children

Sam P.K. Collins photoKayla Benjamin photo by Sam P.K. Collins and Kayla Benjamin May 8, 2024May 8, 2024
Bill Washburn, NAACP DC’s Climate Justice Chair, speaks in support of the Healthy Homes Act among a group of advocates who gathered on the steps of the Wilson Building on March 12, three weeks before the D.C. Council passed the bill. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)
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Three Key Environmental Issues on D.C.’s Budget Chopping Block

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin May 8, 2024July 3, 2024
A butterfly lands on some goldenrod, one of the flowers native to the D.C. area that DMV student groups planted as part of the first Wild Visions Habitat Creation Challenge hosted by Garden for Wildlife. (Courtesy of Trisha Singh/Garden for Wildlife)
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DMV Students Grow Native Plant Gardens in New ‘Wild Visions’ Contest

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin May 8, 2024May 8, 2024
As part of a river cleanup guided by Living Classrooms, Sheree Pendleton paddles along the Potomac with children Olivia Grace and Hannah Bell during a family day at Kingman and Heritage Islands October 2023. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
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Mothering with Mother Earth

Kayla Benjamin photo by Kayla Benjamin May 8, 2024May 8, 2024

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