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Environmentalists and scientists worry that a proposed Federalsburg salmon farm could inundate the shallow Marshyhope Creek with surges of cold water that could make it inhospitable for its spawning population of Atlantic sturgeon.
- From lower prescription costs to cleaner power, here’s what the federal "Inflation Reduction Act" means for Maryland. It's up for a U.S. House vote Friday.
- A new plan to prevent damage in Baltimore from storms like Sandy in 2012 and Isabel doesn’t include sea walls of storm surge barriers, except for the city’s tunnels, and instead recommends property owners flood-proof their homes and businesses near the Patapsco River.
- Rebuilding from a tornado that struck Smith Island, which has no bridge or causeway over the Chesapeake Bay, provides a challenge: Every step of the recovery process requires a boat.
- Video captured on Smith Island showed islanders watching in fear as a waterspout swept onto shore from the Chesapeake Bay.
- One of Baltimore's latest sinkholes underscores the risks posed as obsolete infrastructure endures weather that was once exceptional, but is now commonplace.
- State management of the troubled Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant could end in as little as five weeks, an official from the Maryland Department of the Environment said during a community meeting Tuesday night in Essex where residents expressed ongoing concern about the problems.
- Developments like the Cambria Hotel near the Route 50 bridge have drawn the ire of Ocean City residents for their use of LED lights along its exterior. Complaints that it was an eyesore joined those that claimed other locations with similar lights could cause wayward sea turtles to stray as they made their trek to nesting sites along the beach.
- Edgewater resident Peter Turcik’s photograph of Mallows Bay on the Potomac River will star on a U.S. postage stamp, as part of a series on National Marine Sanctuaries.
- The Maryland Department of the Environment has sent CSX Transportation a violation notice identifying how the freight railroad violated several environmental codes and regulations relating to the Dec. 30 explosion at the company’s Curtis Bay coal facility.
- A high concentration of blue-green algae has been detected in Triadelphia Reservoir in Howard County.
- Citing environmental and health concerns, residents of Govans in Northeast Baltimore are trying to overturn a 2021 zoning decision that would allow a crematorium to be built inside an existing funeral home.
- Young waterman Luke McFadden is charting his own course. TikTokking his livelihood and building a customer base for the crabs he harvests from the Chesapeake Bay.
- The Episcopal Church decided at its national convention in Baltimore to set aside about $2 million a year to create a churchwide coalition for racial equality and justice.
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CSX faces more than $121,000 in OSHA violation penalties after December coal explosion in Curtis Bay
CSX is facing more than $121,000 worth of penalties for a group of serious OSHA violations stemming from a December explosion at its coal facility in Curtis Bay, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday.
- The U.S. Army says it is making progress in the long-running effort to address groundwater contamination at part of Fort Detrick that was used as a test site for the Army’s biological warfare program.
- The sinkhole was created in part by a weekend storm, officials said.
- For some beachgoers, Slaughter Beach’s horseshoe crabs, red knots and other wildlife win out over shopping, the boardwalk and nightlife.
- The Baltimore County Department of Health has issued a water quality advisory for the Back River in the vicinity of Cox Park.
- Brent Walls is part of a riverkeeper network that has used drones to collect evidence of pollution and threaten lawsuits if they aren’t satisfied with how companies respond to allegations.
- The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision limiting the EPA’s ability to rein in power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions won’t affect Maryland’s own accelerating emissions reduction goals — but makes such efforts by states all the more important in addressing the threats of climate change, advocates said.
