environmental politics
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The push for telecommuting as a tool to ease traffic congestion and improve the quality of life for employees is also boosting the government's productivity during major storms. - Dozens of residents on the outskirts of Salisbury now live off bottled water as testing for toxic chemical expands.
- Some Howard County farmers are up in arms over development rights. They say a new bill before the County Council that would limit the use of septic systems would destroy the collateral they rely on when borrowing money to run their farms.
- Empower Maryland program offers 50 percent rebates of up to $3,150 on retrofit projects that make homes more energy efficient by upgrading poor insulation, sealing leaks in air ducts and fixing cracks in walls and around windows and doors.
- Catholic leaders who opposed his election need to find ways to work with the president
- Construction equipment is in place at 2425 Whiteford Road in Whiteford and it appears the long-awaited clean up of arsenic-contaminated soil from a 26-acre parcel at that address is poised to begin any day now, according to the Maryland Department of Environment.
- 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.
- Fort Meade's rapid growth in the last few years has made it the state's largest employer, but getting a foot in the door — or, rather, inside the guarded fence line — can be daunting. Residents crowded into a local high school for tips from Meade experts.
- The Aberdeen City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve an ordinance establishing a water loan program using funds from a settlement with the makers of the gasoline additive MTBE.
- Keeping your opinions to yourself at work might not be easy in today's super-charged political climate.
- President Obama is missing a golden opportunity by not talking more about climate change
- Alan Hudson's lawyers seek to counter claims that manure from his chicken houses contaminated a stream that flows into the Chesapeake Bay
- The consequences of Baltimore's implementation of the federal water safety requirement will ripple throughout the city's neighborhoods.
- Maryland uses many tools besides criminal prosecution to enforce clean water laws.
- Chesapeake Executive Council members skip meetings, focus on self-interest rather than larger goals
- The northern Harford County stretch of I-95 did not fully re-open until 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, as clean-up crews spent almost 10 hours dealing with an overturned diesel truck at the Tydings Bridge near Havre de Grace.
- Sierra Club calls for tighter pollution controls on two Baltimore power plants being sold by Exelon
- Lawyers for Waterkeeper Alliance, Eastern Shore farmers and Perdue spar as poultry pollution trial gets under way
- Trial starts Tuesday in Waterkeeper Alliance pollution lawsuit against Eastern Shore farmers, Perdue
- Candidate Mitt Romney could learn a lot from Gov. Mitt Romney about sustainable development.
- Lawyers for farmers and home builders argued in federal court Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its legal authority and relied on a flawed computer model in setting a pollution "diet" for the Chesapeake Bay.
- Environmental groups sue EPA to block Chesapeake Bay pollution trading
- EPA fines Olson Wire Products $80,000 for hazardous-waste violations
- The Justice Department says BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to pay $210,000 following surprise inspections at a Baltimore area oil terminal.
- New report suggests criminal prosecutions too rare in serious Chesapeake Bay pollution cases
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- Drought-related corn prices shouldn't be used as excuse to step back from renewable energy
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- Delayed by rain, West Nile spraying proceeds in Baltimore County; people, pets advised to stay indoors
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- Baltimore County is conducting mosquito sprayings this week in Catonsville and next week in Pikesville in the wake of two human cases of West Nile Virus.
- Spraying to control West Nile Virus in mosquitoes rescheduled for next week
- Marylander Rachel Carson's book launched the modern environmental movement 50 years ago
- Pikesville and Catonsville are the next area locations to be sprayed for mosquitoes in response to cases of West Nile Virus, Baltimore County Department of Health officials said Friday.
- Corn-based ethanol fuel won't solve our energy problems
- Romney opposes EPA standards for fuel-efficient cars and light trucks
- Maryland health officials are reporting the state's first death from the West Nile virus.
- Maryland levies fines for pollution violations, some of them years old; Lehigh Cement pays $50,000 for 2009 soot emissions
- New EPA standards requiring more fuel-efficient cars by 2025 will save consumers money at the pump and reduce air pollution; so why is Mitt Romney against them?
- EPA, foundation hand out $9 million in grants to help reduce storm-water pollution across six-state watershed
- Drought, low corn yield force reconsideration of the Renewable Fuel Standard for ethanol
- A Baltimore coal terminal operator has agreed to pay a $34,600 penalty and settle pollution violations alleged by the Environmental Protection Agency.
