environmental pollution

Clean up Maryland's coal-fired plants

We ask the Gov. Larry Hogan to do the right thing and quickly issue strong nitrogen oxide regulations that bring Maryland's power plants up to snuff. Baltimore should benefit from the Clean Air Act just like the rest of the country. Instead, we continue to breathe dangerously polluted air with no fix in sight.

NRG is a leader in clean energy — just not in Maryland.

Much has been said and written about proposed new emissions regulations in Maryland, including two recent letters to the editor in the Sun that vilify NRG Energy and misrepresent its stance on improving Maryland's environment. In the interest of accuracy, I'd like to provide some background and NRG's true position.

So-called 'emergency' rules on coal-fired power plants are a cave-in to industry

'Flexibility' on coal plants will cost Maryland dearly

Marylanders should not underwrite coal-fired power plants with health care dollars

The body of a Dundalk woman missing since Saturday has been found at the Wheelabrator trash incineration facility in Baltimore, police in Baltimore County said Tuesday.

Larry Hogan only counts as an environmental governor for those who don't breathe.

Gov. Larry Hogan is backing away from his predecessor's attempt to make coal-fired power plants install costly new pollution controls, switch to cleaner-burning fuel or shut down.

Like many of 9,000 people who work at the Goddard Space Flight Center, George J. Huffman is charged with developing technology to study the Earth from above.

Hogan's opposition to clean air standards will cost Md. dearly

Environmental and health groups have launched a television ad blitz Thursday calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to release an air pollution regulation that he blocked when he took office.

A House committee is scheduled to hear testimony on a bill that would impose an air pollution regulation that Gov. Larry Hogan withdrew when he took office.

Millions of Chinese speakers around the world watched "Under the Dome," the 104-minute documentary about China's air pollution situation before it was removed by the government. In China, demanding accountability is never OK, even when the topic is as widely known and severe as air pollution.

Marylanders must demonstrate their support for clean energy because their governor won't

Increased incidence of asthma traced to race and income may also be a result of pollution in low-income neighborhoods

Hogan wrong to withdraw regulations to reduce air pollution from coal-fired power plants

New governor's decision to delay or defer clean air rules in Maryland is counter-productive

New governor has worsened life for asthma patients by withdrawing Maryland limits on smog from power plants

Hogan wrong to block broadly-supported rules to reduce air pollution in Maryland

In one of his first acts after taking office Wednesday, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan withdrew a handful of regulations proposed in the final weeks of the previous Democratic administration. One hotly contested proposal would have curbed Eastern Shore farmers' use of poultry manure on their fields.

Not so green

American Petroleum Institute: Stricter ozone standards would be disastrous for the economy.

City smog threatens our health and the economy

GOP plan to thwart EPA rules foolishly ignores the grave threat posed by air pollution and climate change to American health and economy

EPA's stricter standards on smog would bring some relief to Maryland residents but more is needed

The Obama administration announced Wednesday a long-anticipated move to tighten limits on smog-forming pollution, declaring that despite improvements in air quality in Maryland and nationwide, millions of vulnerable adults and children risk illness and even premature death from inhaling currently acceptable levels.

Unfortunately a bill recently passed by the Baltimore City Council allowing the use of e-cigarettes in restaurants, taverns and casinos not only weakens Baltimore and Maryland's longstanding and popular smoke-free laws, it threatens the health of many city workers. We urge Mayor Rawlings-Blake to see through the tobacco industry smokescreen and use her power to veto this ordinance.

Pollution controls needed for coal-fired plants

None of the business leaders, politicians or the economic analysts quoted by The Sun mention the health costs of locating a new industrial CSX facility near a residential neighborhood. No one put a price tag on the proposed increase in air pollution, its health effects and the resulting loss in productivity.

Continued over the long-term, voluntary, individual actions and partnerships to educate the public about what those actions are, will be an integral part of the solutions to improving the air in the greater metropolitan Baltimore-Washington region. Together, we can make a difference and help ensure we all have a daily supply of healthy, life-giving clean air to breathe.

Rain inspires new Hogan attack

Now is the time to contact Gov. Martin O'Malley to remind him how important it is to ramp up work by our utilities and state agencies to deliver energy efficiency, which reduces the need to generate electricity with fuels that create the carbon pollution that harms our health and planet. Our state must invest more money, and do so more effectively, especially in our housing stock. Not only will that protect our cherished Chesapeake Bay by reducing pollution, it will benefit households struggling

Federal regulators approved new pollution limits Monday for Maryland's coastal bays aimed at restoring water quality in the shallow lagoons that serve both as playground for Ocean City vacationers and vital habitat for fish and wildlife.

Lakes infested by harmful algae closed to swimming; Baltimore's reservoirs safe - for now - but all are threatened by same nutrient pollution fouling the Chesapeake

Poor air quality, at levels hazardous to children and the elderly, is forecast in the Baltimore area Tuesday, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment.

Eight Democratic members of Maryland's congressional delegation wrote President Obama Monday urging him to reconsider his administration's plan to allow seismic testing for oil and gas off the Mid-Atlantic coast.

Emmy Dallam of the Bel Air area was named Miss Harford County Farm Bureau for 2014 Thursday evening at the Harford County Farm Fair.

While many of her friends spent the summer swimming or going to amusement parks, 11-year-old Asley Ventura, of Laurel, had fun participating in a space camp at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

Eighteen months after Gov. Martin O'Malley heralded a deal to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay by generating electricity from poultry waste, the company chosen to build the manure-fueled power plant on the Eastern Shore has yet to land a site or apply for permits.

As dozens of supporters and opponents looked on, Maryland's top elected officials gave a key approval Wednesday to developing a natural gas export facility in southern Maryland that some fear could threaten nearby residents' safety and the environment.

Instead of the federal CO2 level, Maryland must focus on the state level to eliminate the toxic pollutants nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. This can only be achieved by retiring the Charles P. Crane and Herbert A. Wagner coal power plants that produce them.

Jason Mah built bicycle-powered lawnmower with neighbor John Jacob

Maryland's Atlantic Ocean beaches earned high marks for water quality in a recent report but polluted runoff remains a serious threat to human health