Transportation

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.

Environment

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.

Community

Region Forward

COG's Region Forward Vision focuses on creating a more prosperous, accessible, livable, and sustainable metropolitan Washington. It maps out ambitious goals and targets to guide future decisions and measure progress. In addition to COG, the region’s local governments and several civic and nonprofit organizations have endorsed the vision and incorporated it into their own planning efforts. The Region Forward Coalition is leading the effort to turn these big goals into better communities.

COG shares stories on its Region Forward Blog below to highlight area leaders and initiatives that are helping advance the vision.

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Hans Riemer: Protecting our air quality and health

May 2, 2017

Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee Chairman Hans Reimer urges continued collaboration to further reduce air pollution.
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Q&A: Prince George's County Chief Administrative Officer Nicholas Majett

April 18, 2017

Nicholas (Nick) Majett, Prince George’s County Chief Administrative Officer, has been a COG member since May 2014, when he first joined Prince George’s County...
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Sharon Zalewski: Cross-jurisdictional collaboration key to addressing the region's opioid epidemic

March 15, 2017

Overuse, misuse, and abuse of legally obtained opioids, along with the steady availability of low-cost heroin, fentanyl, and other illegally-obtained narcotics,...
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John Cavanaugh: Colleges and universities create capital

February 10, 2017

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ State of the Region: Human Capital report provides a great overview of the rich talent pools existing and...
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Karen Pallansch: Making sustainability a priority in the wastewater sector

February 2, 2017

Alexandria Renew Enterprises (AlexRenew), wastewater utility to the City of Alexandria and parts of Fairfax County, and a member of the Chesapeake Bay and Water...