Environmentalists Push for Green Stadium

“We’re talking potentially a lot of water pollution from a stadium”

I dunno how I feel about this. Is this another instance of environmentalists sticking their nose where they ideally don’t belong? Or is this one of the most innovative ways of cleaning up the Anacostia River that I have ever seen?

Environmental groups have a color in mind for the baseball stadium proposed for the Montreal Expos. They want it to be green – inside and out.

The coalition is lobbying the District of Columbia Council to make the baseball stadium the nation’s first certified environmentally friendly ballpark. Whether it’s built on the Anacostia River waterfront or near the RFK Stadium, the new stadium would be located next to one of the nation’s most polluted rivers, said Elliott Negin, spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

I tend to lean towards the latter. Anyone who has driven past the Navy Yard knows what kind of stink we are talking about coming from the Anacostia River. This could be a real opportunity to clean the river up.