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Army says no risks from radioactive material found at APG's Edgewood area
The Army will hold a public information meeting in Edgewood next week to go over its findings in connection with a former salvage site on Aberdeen Proving Ground, where a small amount of radioactive material was found beginning in 2009. The material...
Tags: U.S. Military, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Environmental Pollution, Hazardous Materials, Environmental Politics
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Baltimore reshaping approach to aging water lines
Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the past year by a series of extremely public problems: widespread billing errors that required millions in refunds, massive water main breaks that closed downtown streets, and a collapsed stormwater culvert...
Tags: Loans, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Environmental Pollution, Credit and Debt, Overlea
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Maryland police seek federal help to take ill-gotten gains
Gay Lynn Diffenderffer had no idea that her husband was growing marijuana at their Baltimore County home, her attorney says, until state police investigating his mysterious disappearance discovered about 100 plants in a locked basement. Two weeks later,...
Tags: Law Enforcement, Auction Service, Drug Trafficking, Finance, Trials
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Join rally for climate change
Kudos to Mike Tidwell for his clear commentary explaining why we need a revenue-neutral carbon tax to reduce emissions and slow climate change ("Forecast calls for pain," Feb. 6). I'm convinced, but how are the American people going to convince Congress...
Tags: Global Change, White House, Keystone XL Pipeline, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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Anne Arundel council, residents facing plan for stormwater fees
The county council will soon take up an issue that has swirled below the surface of Anne Arundel County politics, has the attention of environmentalists and constitutionalists alike, and will spark debate: Bill No. 2-13, which would impose fees on...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Environmental Pollution, Severna Park, Finance, Environmental Politics
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Harford Executive David Craig's 2013 State of the County Address
The following is the complete text of Harford County Executive David Craig's 2013 State of the County Address delivered at the Harford County Council legislative session on Tuesday, Feb. 5: "Where there is no vision, the people perish", so it is...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Health and Safety at School, Health Treatments, Waste
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Maryland's farm oversight called weak
As large-scale poultry farmers are required to do, Alan Hudson of Berlin filed a plan last year with Maryland environmental regulators spelling out how he intended to prevent manure from his flocks from fouling the Chesapeake Bay.
Hudson had hired a...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Perdue Farms, Agriculture, Fertilizer, Fines
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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 Storm Lee (2011), Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Environmental Pollution, Tropical Storms, Environmental Politics
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Report finds Bay contaminants widespread, severe in spots
A new federal report finds toxic contamination remains widespread in the Chesapeake Bay, with severe impacts in some places, which health and environmental advocates say lends support to their push in Annapolis for legislative action on pesticides and...
Tags: Annapolis, Environmental Politics, U.S. Geological Survey
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Obama should sidestep Congress
Incumbent presidents don't run for reelection simply to preserve first-term accomplishments. Presidents and presidential candidates are men and women of big ambition, driven by the immense self-confidence required to run for the job and a desire to...
Tags: Elections, White House, Asthma, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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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: Tropical Weather, Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Tropical Storms, Hurricane Irene (2011), U.S. Geological Survey
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Eastern Shore farmers, Perdue win pollution lawsuit
Ruling in a bitterly contested case with national ramifications, a federal judge found Thursday that the Waterkeeper Alliance failed to prove that an Eastern Shore farm's chicken houses were polluting a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.
U.S. District...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Agriculture, Environmental Pollution, Hospitals and Clinics, Litigation
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