Good morning, Washington. Grab the galoshes. The D.C. region, which has been suffering from moderate drought, is locked in for more rain today. Heavy downpours are expected, and the National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for most of the metro region. Maryland's tax-free week starts today, so if you don't find the rain too dissuasive be careful on the roads. more ›

10 D.C. metropolitan area communities making up parts of the Anacostia River watershed have earned grants from the EPA to promote the use of green infrastructure. The EPA announced the new initiative Friday, along with nine other cities around the U.S., in an effort to reduce the amount of water runoff from entering local waterways, as well as touting the program's benefits to local economies and neighborhood revitalization. The announcement is an update to a 2008 strategy called "Managing Wet Weather and Green Infrastructure." more ›

We can’t trip over a Facebook status message without being reminded that today is Earth Day. Local food blogs The Arugula Files and FoodieTots are using the occasion to promote Blog for the Bay day, an effort to get local bloggers to link to a Chesapeake Bay Foundation petition urging the EPA to take action to meet a goal of cleaning up the bay by 2010. They also suggest posting a favorite story, memory, or crab recipe related to the Chesapeake Bay while you're at it, so we'll take the initiative to endorse one of our favorite local summertime activities: a trip to the Maine Avenue Fish Wharf, followed by a picnic in East Potomac Park. Ask the right vendor for a dozen mediums and, 20 minutes and less than $20 later, you’ll have a bag full of 20 steamy, spicy little guys. It's all more than enough to make us want to do our part to save the Bay and save the crabs. Then eat ‘em. more ›