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Regional climate compact at a crossroads
A pioneering regional compact to fight climate change stands at a crossroads, as officials from Maryland and eight other Northeast states meet Tuesday in New York to weigh new limits on their power plants' carbon dioxide emissions. With emissions...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Energy, Auction Service, Electricity Production and Distribution, Global Change
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Nutrient-trading programs can reduce bay pollution
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation appreciates the concern about nutrient trading expressed by Dr. Robert S. Lawrence of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ("Nutrient trading a dirty deal for the bay, Dec. 9). We would like to present some...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Water, Rivers, Bodies of Water
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Pa. fracking has been a disaster
All those bucolic scenes of gas wells set against a blue sky are fantasies. I know because I have a farm in upstate Pennsylvania in Tioga County. Nearby there are many dirty, polluting gas wells. They spew out carcinogenic chemicals, some radioactive....Tags: Water, Natural Disasters, Weather Reports, Asthma, Droughts
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Conowingo Dam is not the problem
The Susquehanna River and its big dams have been in the news lately. A handful of Maryland county officials would like you to believe the dams are the primary ill of the Chesapeake Bay. They claim that because sediment reservoirs behind the Conowingo...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Local Government, Government, Environmental Politics, Technology
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Lisa Jackson has been a courageous EPA administrator
Kudos to Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency who is stepping down from her cabinet-level position after the president's State of the Union address in January ("Chief of EPA to leave post," Dec. 28). Ms. Jackson has performed...Tags: Republican Party, Environmental Politics, Environmental Illness, Lisa P. Jackson
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There's no evidence fracking contaminates groundwater
A recent editorial accused the oil and natural gas industry of hoping "the next administration will be less protective of the environment and the health of Western Maryland's residents," a claim supported by zero evidence ("No study, no fracking," Dec....Tags: Water, Petroleum Industry, Alternative Energy, Environmental Politics, Energy Resources
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Paul Ryan's billionaire populism
Last Friday, Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee, made the most populist speech of this campaign season. "It's the people who are politically connected, it's the people who have access to Washington that get the breaks," he...
Tags: China, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, This Week (tv program), Mitt Romney, Energy Saving
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Court hears legal challenge to Chesapeake Bay 'pollution diet'
— In a challenge to the Obama administration's efforts to jump-start the lagging restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, lawyers for farmers and homebuilders argued in federal court here Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Justice System, Environmental Politics, Tangier (Accomack, Virginia)
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Romney for president! (Governor Romney, that is)
He is referred to everywhere as Gov. Mitt Romney, even though he hasn't been a governor for six years. It's a practice I have never understood. "Former" or "ex" is more accurate but apparently not as polite. Anyway, as polls are starting to shift...
Tags: Interior Policy, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, White House, Planned Parenthood
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A primer on landing one of Fort Meade's jobs
Fort Meade's rapid growth in the past few years has made it the state's largest employer, but getting a foot in the door — or, rather, inside the guarded fence line — can be daunting. Many of the Army installation's 56,000 jobs require a...Tags: Kelly Services Incorporated, National Security Agency, Public Finance, Employment, Environmental Politics
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Eastern Shore poultry pollution trial opens
Lawyers in a closely watched pollution lawsuit targeting an Eastern Shore chicken farm and the Salisbury-based poultry company Perdue presented radically different previews of the case Tuesday as the trial began in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
The...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Laws, Trials, Litigation, Justice System
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Hurricane Sandy boosts federal telework
Federal officials shut the government down as Hurricane Sandy crashed ashore late last month, but NOAA employee Holly Bamford remained hard at work. While heavy rain and wind lashed her Silver Spring office, the National Ocean Service manager oversaw...
Tags: National Government, John Sarbanes, Republican Party, Hurricane Sandy (2012), National Hurricane Center
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