environmental cleanup
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- Former Md. health secretary calls for confirmation of Gina McCarthy to top environmental post
- Pennsylvania's headlong plunge into drilling for natural gas from Marcellus shale formations has produced winners and losers. Businesses catering to the energy industry have opened or expanded, and some landowners who signed leases allowing wells to be drilled on their property have profited. But critics say fracking has polluted wells and threatens the environment.
- Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the last year by a series of extremely public problems. But behind the scenes, they have also been making progress on the city's aged and long-deteriorating water system.
- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Waterkeeper Alliance failed to prove that an Eastern Shore farm's chicken houses were polluting a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.
- Restoration of Roland Water Tower began with an environmental cleanup of the tower at West University Parkway and Roland Avenue on Oct. 31
- Baltimore County will hold a special, one-day collection event for household hazardous waste item on Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Baltimore County Western Acceptance Facility, 3310 Transway Road, in Halethorpe.
- President Obama is missing a golden opportunity by not talking more about climate change
- Marylander Rachel Carson's book launched the modern environmental movement 50 years ago
- The Sparrows Point steel mill was sold Tuesday to a plant demolition company for $72 million after no steelmaking companies showed up at auction to bid, the union said.
- Project will bring jobs, commerce and amenities that residents want
- Biodiesel producers told a congressional panel Wednesday that they're struggling to stay afloat in the wake of fraud cases uncovered in Baltimore and Texas, and a spokesman for petroleum refiners faulted the Environmental Protection Agency for slow response to a crisis he said has cost the industry $200 million so far.
- The multi-state effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay is on track to meet its latest timetable for cleaning up the ailing estuary, even though states failed to achieve all the short-term pollution reduction goals they set for themselves three years ago, officials said Monday.
- Pennsylvania officials debate declaring Susquehanna River 'impaired' over declines, ailments seen in smallmouth bass
- A Baltimore County PUD reform bill introduced by David Marks will proceed after Councilman Ken Oliver raised questions about it during the council's Tuesday work session.
- The Comprehensive Zoning Map Process — in which the county may change rules governing land use — is on, as it has been every four years since 1971. And so are the battles.
- Exelon's decision to build its local headquarters in Harbor Point drew dismay from those who wanted to see the energy giant settle downtown after its merger with Constellation Energy.
- Billions needed for runoff and septic controls around the state
- To save the Bay, the Maryland Department of the Environment needs to get tough on polluters
- Despite an ever-increasing focus on preserving valuable forest land at the state level, private properties along the edges of Patapsco Valley State Park are continuing to be dev…
- Fracking: There's plenty to fear from allowing it in Maryland
- A tour of biking trails in the woods around Loch Raven Reservoir organized by mountain bikers and attended by politicians and city officials devolved into…
- MAPS system has processed hazardous waste since 2003
- MAPS system has processed hazardous waste since 2003
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- Chesapeake Bay: First comprehensive look at protecting the environment from nitrogen recommends creating wetlands, planting less corn
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to limit the use of septic systems in development would be the most significant advance for Smart Growth principles in decades.
