Some Rappahannock Rotary members volunteered on Thursday to help Tree Fredericksburg get ready for Earth Day. Earth Day at Old Mill Park begins at 11am.

Ann Little tells us there’s a need for volunteers Thursday and Friday morning for volunteers to help get the seedlings ready.

Robert Courtnage and Sarah Hurst with updates: Sustainability Award winners, Solarize Fredericksburg, Earth Day, eliminating plastic bags.

On Feb. 22 community partners are invited to participate in a second 90-day appeal and comment period

In the nation’s 13,185 unified school districts, rural electric co-ops like REC serve more than 50 percent of the territory in nearly 6,000 of those districts.

The city says plastic bags have a major impact on the environment because it takes hundreds of years to for them to breakdown,

Tree Fredericksburg coordinated the event with mainly native shrubs

Models suggest conservation practices are reducing nitrogen, phosphorus pollution entering Bay

Preventing development of the working farmland was a top priority for environmental protection and nearby Army installation operations

The location is the Stafford Regional Airport

The Fredericksburg Clean and Green Commission holds its annual Spring Cleanup Saturday. A preview with Sarah Hurst and Robert Courtnage.

The Chesapeake Bay program releases annual assessment of Bay health