environmental defense fund
-
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous picked up endorsements Friday from two of Maryland’s leading environmental groups. - President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed a new set of rules that would give states greater control over limits on pollution from coal-fired power plants, and likely allow many of those plants to operate longer than they would have under a plan from former President Barack Obama.
- Maryland wants to spend $103 million to expand natural gas service, but environmental ramifications are mixed at best.
- Government should side with children and fish who can’t breathe, not utility owners looking to pad their bottom line.
- President Donald J. Trump said Friday he wants the federal government to speed the environmental review of major infrastructure projects, and he held out a controversial highway in Maryland to make the case for why the improvements are needed.
- Jenn Aiosa, a 20-year veteran of state government and environmental nonprofits, has been named the new leader of advocacy group Blue Water Baltimore.
- The Supreme Court ruled Monday against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants, but it may only be a temporary setback for regulators.
- WASHINGTON -- Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday criticized a bipartisan bill intended to overhaul federal chemical regulations because it would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to preempt the oversight of some chemicals by states.
- The debate over the merits of stream restoration has taken on added significance, as such projects have become a favored tool of local governments in the Baltimore area for meeting increasingly tough federal mandates to reduce the sediment and nutrient pollution fouling the bay and its tributaries.
- State regulatory agency not doing enough to guard against polluted runoff
- Local governments are charged with enforcing state regulations limiting polluted runoff from development, and the state is supposed to check on them.
- Good science and good data can restore the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population and help the watermen who depend on it.
- A new Maryland Department of Natural Resources program allows watermen to use smartphones and tablets to report their blue crab catch, which means better data and more regulatory flexibility.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending air-quality regulation that would require large, ocean-going ships to burn cleaner fuel.
- Md. lacks enough inspectors to keep streams clean, so volunteers may have to step up
- It's hard work catching soft crabs, a fickle livelihood in an increasingly precarious part of the world.
- Survey finds errors, missing projects in Maryland storm-water database, raising questions about efficacy of polluted runoff controls.
- PJM Interconnection staff are recommending the grid operator cancel the PATH and MAPP transmission line projects because of lowered electricity demand.
- Maryland's crabbing rules aren't satisfactory for the watermen or the regulators, and they're working together on a better management scheme.
-
