environmental politics
- Domino sugar refinery owner agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty and install pollution controls to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the Inner Harbor plant of violating the Clean Air Act.
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MD officials float revised farm regulations that would curb use of manure, sludge to fertilize fields - Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan for a special legislative session on the budget puts the state on sound fiscal path, maintains key investments in education and asks relatively little of taxpayers.
- Study finding pollution trading could cut Chesapeake Bay cleanup costs draws interest, criticism
- Billions of dollars in potential savings seen; critics warn of 'Pandora's box'
- EPA says 45 metro areas, including Baltimore, fail to meet ozone pollution limits
- Federal officials view "bioswale," gardens in West Baltimore
- Constellation Energy Group's three Maryland coal-fired plants are to be sold by the end of the year.
- Lung Association reports Baltimore-DC area had 13th worst high-ozone days, 22nd worst particle pollution
- Environmental groups seek dismissal of Bay cleanup lawsuit filed by farmers, builders
- Scientists grade Chesapeake Bay's condition D+ in 2011
- The Chesapeake Bay was the surprise winner of the recent legislative session, which is a lesson in its continuing appeal and the power of compromise
- Law clinics: State-funded university programs are weighted in favor of environmental activism
- Assembly orders MD's largest localities to levy fees to pay for controlling runoff pollution
- An update to elevated lead levels in Grafton Ridge development.
- Redistricting, early voting and the flood of interest from a presidential election year has made March a critical month for candidates vying for positions in Congress, perhaps none as hectic as the 8th Congressional District race.
- Judge approves deal to sample for steel-making pollution only 50 feet offshore
- Nearly all of the toxic pollutants in Maryland's waterways come from the watershed that enters the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, according to a report released Thursday by an environmental watchdog group.
- New EPA initiative provides funding for pollution control
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- 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.
- Robert Ehrlich says America needs local sources of cheap energy
- Robert Ehrlich says America needs local sources of cheap energy
- Independent scientific panel recommends against further research
- Environment restoration team tells Bush River Council about current work
- Baltimore's public works department is issuing more than $4.2 million in water bill refunds to 38,000 households in the city and Baltimore County after an audit showed the agency overcharged charged tens of thousands of customers.
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- Rep. Andy Harris, whose district is home to last year's Kentucky Derby winner, is putting aside his disdain for federal regulations to push a proposal that would prohibit the use of cramped horse trailers that animal rights advocates say are inhumane.
- Agency mostly praises Maryland, faults Pennsylvania, Virginia
- House panel quizzes EPA over Baltimore, Texas biodiesel fraud investigations
- Federal rules to protect endangered fish complicate restocking
- Thanks in large part to booming production of natural gas from shale deposits in neighboring states, a Maryland LNG terminal could be bustling again in several years — exporting the heating and industrial fuel to other countries, instead of importing it.
- Greens say some MD counties lack cleanup specifics
