Through the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board at COG, area officials, planners, and engineers focus on significant challenges like roadway and transit congestion, efficient freight movement, and safety. Learn more about COG's transportation planning areas. Learn more about the TPB.
COG's work engages leaders in various environmental fields from water quality experts to urban foresters. Together, they are advancing regional efforts to restore local waterways, reduce air pollution, increase renewable energy use, promote recycling, and enhance and preserve green space and agriculture. Learn more.
Area officials and experts, including planning and housing directors and child welfare and health officials, work together with their counterparts at COG to help shape stronger communities throughout the region. Learn more.
COG brings police chiefs, fire chiefs, emergency managers, and other leaders together as part of its work to strengthen regional public safety coordination, homeland security planning, and emergency communication. Learn more.
COG connects leaders across borders to help shape strong communities and a better region. Every month, more than a thousand officials and experts come to COG to make connections, share information, and develop solutions to the region’s major challenges. Learn more.
The purchasing and human resources pages offer information on doing business with COG, cooperative purchasing, and job opportunities. In addition, the website features initiatives that tie subject areas together, such as infrastructure and economic competitiveness.
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise Program: WasteWise is a voluntary partnership between EPA and organizations to encourage the reduction of municipal solid waste.
Office of the Federal Environmental Executive and Director of the White House Task Force on Recycling
National Recycling Coalition
Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Recycling and Economic Development Officials
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality - Recycling and Litter Prevention Program
Virginia Recycling Association
Maryland Department of the Environment - Recycling in Maryland
Maryland Recyclers Coalition
Baltimore County Recycling Office