The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Groups such as the Sierra Club shifted focus from local issues to becoming a lobby in Washington and new groups, for example, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, arose to influence politics as well.

Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement ( Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993 ).

From 1973 to 1987 he directed the conservation program at World Wildlife Fund-U. S., and from 1987 to 1998 he served as Assistant Secretary for Environmental and External Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., and in 1994 became Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs.

* DC Environmental Film Festival, a festival held annually in Washington, DC

Cutler J. Cleveland ( Washington, D. C .: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment ).

" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.

The Washington Environmental Council hired environmental consultants, who demonstrated that the plan would be particularly harmful to New Preston and Lake Waramaug.

* Washington Environmental Council

Bend sits on the boundary of the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills, a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the U. S. states of Oregon, Washington, and California, and the Deschutes River Valley, a Level IV ecoregion within the Blue Mountains Level III ecoregion.

* Federal Facilities Council Report 1999, Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001, National Academy Press, Washington DC.

Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, D. C., USA, 124 pp.

Cutler J. Cleveland ( Washington, D. C .: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment ).

Committees include Asian Pacific American Student Coalition ( APASC ), Black Student Union ( BSU ), Election Board, Environmental Task Force ( ETF ), Filipino American Student Association ( FASA ), Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Allies ( GLBTA ), Housing Commission, International Students ' Council ( ISC ), Ku Ah Mah, KZUU Radio, Middle Eastern Students Association ( MESA ), Movimiento Estudianti Chicano de Aztian ( MEChA ), Student Legal Services ( SLS ), Veteran ’ s Affairs and Washington Student Lobby ( WSL ).

* C. Michael Hogan, Leda C. Patmore and Harry Seidman ( 1973 ) Statistical Prediction of Dynamic Thermal Equilibrium Temperatures using Standard Meteorological Data Bases, Second Edition ( EPA-660 / 2-73-003 2006 ) United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Washington DC

* Environmental Media Services, a Washington, D. C. based nonprofit organization

Cutler J. Cleveland ( Washington, D. C .: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment ).

Environmental sustainability is playing an increasingly important role on the Mary Washington campus and within the community.

* U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), Washington, DC ( 2010-05-10 ).

FOE set up its headquarters in San Francisco, and opened an office in Washington, D. C .. Brower soon spun off two new organizations from the FOE Washington staff: the League of Conservation Voters in 1970 and the Environmental Policy Center in 1971.

Cutler J. Cleveland ( Washington, D. C .: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment ).

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

The International Economic Development Council, IEDC, based in Washington, D. C. recognizes economic developers around the world who have achieved a level of excellence in their understanding of the tools and programs of economic development.

* Miguel Martinez ( BS )-former member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on 14 July 2009.

In 2005, the Seattle City Council asked the Washington State Liquor Control Board to prohibit the sale of certain alcohol products in an impoverished " Alcohol Impact Area.

On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.

A. Jorgensen and C. J. Cleveland, National Council for Science and the environment, Washington DC

On March 5, 1975, John Thompson, former Executive Director of the NFL Management Council and a former Washington Husky executive, was hired as the general manager of the currently unnamed team.

* Treaty of Washington ( 1805 ), between the U. S. and the Creek National Council ( Muscogee ( Creek ))

* Treaty of Washington ( 1826 ), between the U. S. and the Creek National Council led by Opothleyahola

* May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D. C ..

Huels sided against Mayor Harold Washington during the " Council Wars " era.

During one of the first Council meetings, Harold Washington was unable to get his appointments approved.

Meanwhile, in the courts, Washington kept the pressure on to reverse the redistricting of City Council wards that white Democrats had pushed through during the Byrne years.

The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D. C., argues in the book Getting It Straight that finding people are born gay " would advance the idea that sexual orientation is an innate characteristic, like race ; that homosexuals, like African-Americans, should be legally protected against ' discrimination ;' and that disapproval of homosexuality should be as socially stigmatized as racism.

The Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ) is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D. C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing.

Washington University Interfraternity Council

Washington University Panhellenic Council

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

More recently Dr. James Dobson's group Focus on the Family, based in Colorado Springs, and the Family Research Council in Washington D. C. have gained enormous clout among Republican lawmakers.

* http :// www. stg. coa. washco. utah. gov / Washington Council on Aging ( St. George )

* Washington County Council on Aging Provides senior and elderly services including meals on wheels, case management, respite, workshops and more to residents throughout Washington County, Florida.

* Washington County Tourist Development Council