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Maryland warned Baltimore officials Friday that the state plans to take the city to court over polluting discharges from the Back River and Patapsco wastewater treatment plants that had been ongoing for a year before they came to light in August.
- A project to rebuild two vanishing Chesapeake Bay islands — and thereby slow erosion along some of Maryland’s most vulnerable coastline — will receive $38 million under recently approved federal infrastructure spending, officials announced Thursday.
- The consequences of climate change are already here, and will only become more pronounced, prompting Maryland residents, governments and businesses to respond. Climate Change: Ready or Not is an occasional series by Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Dance exploring the ways we are adapting to climate change, and the areas where more action is needed to protect lives and property.
- Federal data show that buyouts remain a rare response to floods in Maryland. In the past decade, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has reported fewer than 20 buyouts in the state.
- Maryland’s secretary of the environment pledged to increase staffing levels in parts of his department Tuesday following reports of issues with drinking water and poultry farm inspections.
- For decades, Camp Small has been a dumping ground for Baltimore’s tree waste. But as part of a zero waste initiative, Baltimore has been recycling felled street and park trees to make usable products, including Camp Small's premier output: lumber.
- Environmental advocates say the plans to abandon coal-burning are commendable, but they’re concerned by the plants’ proposed switch to burning oil, also a highly polluting fossil fuel.
- The latest coronavirus wave adds urgency to some relief measures in the upcoming Maryland General Assembly session, including efforts to boost the state’s beleaguered health care workforce and craft aid for industries like tourism and hospitality.
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- Together, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia are unlikely to reach Chesapeake Bay pollution limits set in place by the Environmental Protection Agency in time for a 2025 deadline, according to a report released Wednesday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
- The state Secretary of the Environment cited a "pattern of improper operations and poor decision-making" at the plant in Linkwood.
- A recent state decision to remove several environmental voices from the Patuxent River Commission by not reappointing them is raising concern that the advisory panel is being gagged on development issues at the risk of harming the river.
- Together, the projects will yield nearly $1 billion in in-state spending and will spur the creation of more than 10,000 new jobs in Maryland, according to the commission
- Blue Water Baltimore filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City on Wednesday, demanding it fix problems at its two sewage treatment plants that have sent massive amounts of bacteria and pollution into the Chesapeake Bay for more than a year.
- After four months on the run in the Maryland suburbs, two zebras that escaped from an exotic animal farm have been caught.
- The RK&K engineering firm is The Baltimore Sun's No. 2 large Top Workplace for 2021.
- For residents of Tangier Island, the arrival of Santa Claus by plane starts the Christmas season.
- The National Parks Service has confirmed the discovery of an ancient crab fossil found along the shores of Assateague Island National Seashore.
- Oak trees are dying across the mid-Atlantic region, crippled by extreme weather, old age, construction and development, then finally succumbing to disease and pests.
- A Maryland office tasked with ensuring the safety of 3,300 public drinking water systems has too few inspectors who are too overworked to do their jobs, according to an EPA report that came to light Wednesday.
- In August and September, calm winds and persistently warm temperatures allowed the Chesapeake Bay's dead zone to grow larger and linger longer than average.
