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Chesapeake Bay grasses decline for third year
The Chesapeake Bay and its rivers have lost 44 percent of their underwater grasses over the past three years, scientists reported Thursday, reducing vital habitat for crabs and fish to a level not seen in nearly three decades. Scientists blamed...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Annapolis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Weather Reports, Environmental Politics
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Plan for wall repair ready to take shape in historic Ellicott City
Before it became "The Wall That Ate Some Cars," it was just a stone wall on Mulligans Hill Lane, bracing a 20-foot-high embankment — stalwart as the steep hills that give Ellicott City's historic district much of its character. Then in early...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Christianity, Patapsco, Ken Ulman
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Winter or spring, snow worries are a Maryland tradition
Here's a question for a snowy day in spring: Will Marylanders, and Baltimoreans in particular, ever grow so accustomed to snow that they stop worrying so much about it? Could climate change do enough crazy things to the atmosphere to bring us more...
Tags: Conservation, Tropical Storms, Safeway Inc., Global Change, Ecosystems
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Good news, for a change, about the Chesapeake Bay
For 30 years, the Chesapeake Bay Program — a partnership including the six bay states, the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies — has been measuring and assessing...
Tags: Conservation, Energy Resources, Tropical Storms, Natural Resource Industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Chesapeake regaining "resilience," EPA reports
The Chesapeake Bay is showing increased resilience in the face of natural and man-made abuses, though it's still seriously impaired, according to the latest official report on the regional restoration effort. The annual "Bay Barometer" released...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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Coal-ash pollution at three Maryland landfills to be cleaned up
The operator of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland has agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties and fix long-standing pollution problems at the landfills in Southern Maryland and Montgomery County where it disposes of the ash from those...Tags: Tropical Storms, Metal and Mineral, Trials, Environmental Pollution, Rivers
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Editorial: Cleaning up the Chesapeake takes efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland
Just as one child tasked with room cleaning raises the point that a sibling's room also is a mess as a means of getting out of the work at hand, so Upper Eastern Shore State Sen. E.J. Pipkin has pointed out that Pennsylvania is a major source of...Tags: Tropical Storms, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wildlife
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Letter: Eastern Shore senator questions state's plan for dealing with sediment behind Conowingo Dam
This letter was sent to the head of the Maryland Department of Environment and a similar one was sent to the head of the Department of Natural Resources. A copy was provided for publication. In August, the U.S. Geological Survey published a report...Tags: Conservation, Tropical Storms, Tropical Weather, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey
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Is the Bay Foundation ignoring the threat behind the Conowingo Dam?
Why does the Chesapeake Bay Foundation refuse to take seriously the threat posed by the Conowingo Dam's inability to hold back Susquehanna River pollution? With respect to the effect of Susquehanna River pollutants, the bay foundation has taken an...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Tropical Storms, Environmental Pollution, Rivers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Conowingo Dam sediment buildup threatens Chesapeake Bay
On a hot summer day, it's hard to see how the Conowingo Dam could hurt the Chesapeake Bay. Anglers line the shore below the 94-foot high impoundment, casting out into the gently roiling Susquehanna River for rockfish breaking the water. Yet unseen, on...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Environmental Pollution, Water, Annapolis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Extreme energy, extreme weather
There were no tornado warnings last Friday night, when I muted the Nationals game around 11 p.m. I listened intently through my living-room window. A train, I thought. Definitely a train. I should have known better. The warnings have been building for...
Tags: Energy Resources, Conservation, Tropical Storms, Metal and Mineral, Global Change
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Chesapeake Bay 'dead zone' shrinks
The Chesapeake Bay's water quality has taken a turn for the better, state officials report, as the oxygen-starved 'dead zone' where fish, crabs and shellfish struggle to breathe has shrunk to its second smallest since 1985. Water samples taken in early...Tags: Tropical Storms, Foods and Beverages, Seafood
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