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Record rainfall brings a multitude of mushrooms
Baltimore is being invaded by flying saucers — in fungal form.
Airborne spores, driven by the summer's record rains, have been alighting in backyards, gardens, farm fields and forests throughout the Mid-Atlantic region (in short, wherever there...Tags: Georgetown University, Labor Day, University of Maryland, College Park, Hurricane Irene (2011), Mushrooms
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Breathing uneasily: Obama retreats on tightening smog standards
In a decision that outraged public health experts and environmentalists Friday, President Barack Obama announced that he had directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to do anything further to lower smog in the air until 2013 — after...Tags: Physical Conditions, Environmental Pollution, Baltimore County, Standards, Heart Disease
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Jobs versus health: a false choice
Why are power plants worth more than the health of 140,000 Maryland children afflicted with asthma? What about pregnant women eating mercury-tainted fish from the Chesapeake Bay? How could their risk be scored so low compared to a utility plant's profit?...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Talk Shows (genre), Technology, Republican Party, Environmental Politics
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EPA administrator stands tall
For those who long for clean water, breathable air and perhaps even a healthy Chesapeake Bay, there's at least one public figure willing to fight for your cause, and she's a former chemical engineer who has never held elected office.
U.S. Environmental...Tags: Physical Conditions, George W. Bush, Environmental Pollution, Plant Openings, Maryland
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Retreat on smog rules bad news for Marylanders
For too long, smog pollution has left our children gasping for breath ("Breathing uneasily: Obama retreats on tightening smog standards," Sept. 7). Unfortunately, rather than acting decisively to protect our kids' health and despite independent air expert...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Barack Obama, Standards, Lungs and Airways, Air Pollution
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Best Bets
Mount Royal Tavern — 1204 W. Mount Royal Ave., hosts the 27th annual Foodscape, a takeoff on Artscape, with an opening reception July 10, 5:30-8 p.m. 410-243-2632. A group of Baltimore artists has been creating food-themed art to rib the focus...Tags: Physical Conditions, Roland Park, Artscape, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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EPA rule seeks to curb long-distance air pollution
In a sweeping move aimed at curbing long-distance air pollution that afflicts the health of 240 million Americans — including Marylanders — the Environmental Protection Agency is ordering power plants across much of the eastern United States...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Maryland, Metal and Mineral, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay
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Code Orange air quality alert today
The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange air quality alert Tuesday for the Baltimore metropolitan area. A Code Orange alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for certain groups,...Tags: Physical Conditions, Environmental Pollution, Air Pollution, Howard County
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Howard to ban smoking in county parks
Howard County, which led the way in prohibiting smoking indoors, plans to extend the ban outdoors to all county parks, a move that would be the first of its kind in the state.
"It's something we've been looking at for some time," County Executive Ken...Tags: Physical Conditions, Patapsco, Baltimore County, Tourism and Leisure, Maryland
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Rethinking addiction: Expanding treatment isn't enough
A report last week that the University of Maryland Medical Center is one of 10 hospitals across the country this year that will begin offering new residency programs in addiction medicine is welcome news for Baltimore, which for decades has suffered...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Physical Conditions, Addiction, Chicago Hotels, Substance Abuse
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Is obesity grounds for taking away a child?
In a July 13 opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a pediatrician and a lawyer from Harvard suggest that child-protective services take severely overweight children away from negligent parents. I do think this question should...Tags: Abusive Behavior, High Blood Pressure, Weight, Justice System, Family
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Dirty trucks in port targeted
With more than a million miles on the road, Armand Patella's 19-year-old Ford 9000 truck has seen better days.
But he's hung onto it, because new trucks aren't cheap. Patella, the head of Picorp trucking service on East Lombard Street, still uses the...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Colleges and Universities, Local Government, Justice System, Heart Problems
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