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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.

Tomato plants are like canaries in the coal mine when it comes to herbicide injury. They are super sensitive to the chemical 2,4-D and its family of growth-regulating herbicides, including clopyralid.

After a lengthy and tepid spring, recent weeks have seen Carroll County begin to taste the summer heat, and then run inside to crank up the air conditioning.

WASHINGTON (AP) ¿ A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber's modest productivity this election season to a near halt.

New bipartisan report finds risk of climate change is a major threat to U.S. employers and future economic growth

Maryland can have cleaner air and more jobs by promoting solar power

From The Aegis dated June 22, 1989

There are many other benefits to Marylanders from reducing our dependence on coal-fired power plants that we need to fully understand so that we can enthusiastically support new measures to reduce carbon emissions and speed up their adoption.

Maryland stands to benefit from EPA rules to reduce carbon emissions from power plants

A Q&A with the longtime Howard County resident and former U.S. ambassador

Obama administration unveils a climate change plan already demonstrated to work by Maryland and other states with cap-and-trade

For years, those fishing in East Coast waterways have faced bans on felt-soled boots and urgings that they scrub their gear to combat the spread of a pervasive algae.

Supreme Court's support of EPA curbs on out-of-state air pollution is life-saving news for downwind states like Maryland

A theoretical inconvenience to Pax River radar testing should not trump a $200 million Eastern Shore wind power facility

Latest United Nations report details more widespread dangers of climate change that governments and business are ill-prepared to address

More Than a Cruise stormed from last to first to win the $100,000 Conniver Stakes for Maryland-bred and/or Maryland-sired fillies and mares, the co-feature on Saturday's program at Laurel Park.

Michael Abrams opinion

Supreme Court must uphold EPA greenhouse gas rules as the nation's best — and likely only — opportunity to address climate change

Inside a drab computer lab at the Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is trying to build something that has never existed before: a digital currency that changes hands completely in secret. Its name is Zerocoin.

For the moment, however, it appears people can live with the quarry as it is managed. So long as that remains the case, the quarry should be permitted to continue its operation.

Not only should the proposed incinerator in Curtis Bay not be built so close to Benjamin Franklin High School, it should not be built at all. Calling it a trash-burning "power plant" doesn't make it safe or change the fact that it incinerates dangerous industrial waste.

The controversy over exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay has become an issue in the race for Maryland's State House, at least among the Democratic candidates for governor.Saying the environmental costs are too high, Montgomery County Del. Heather Mizeur announced Friday that she opposes a bid by Dominion, a Virginia-based energy company, to export LNG through a terminal it owns at Cove Point in Calvert County.

Even a favorable Supreme Court decision in EPA case likely won't go far enough to protect Maryland and other East Coast states from upwind air polluters

Gerald Allen Elkins, a retired Department of Planning mapmaker and graphic artist who detailed Baltimore's transformation for more than four decades, died of cancer Nov. 28 at his Ocean Pines home. The former Overlea resident was 65.

Plan to build liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point poses major problems

Latest 'barometer' finds Chesapeake Bay remains badly pollution but there is reason for optimism in the long-term

Holiday train garden and Santa roll into Shops at Kenilworth in Towson for the Christmas season.

A full-fledged Environmental Impact Statement ought to be required for the proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal

Baltimore day trips

Virginia-based Dominion Resources wants to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the Chesapeake Bay via a facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. This project would not only damage our state's environment, it is also part of an unwise potential national shift toward exporting natural gas, which threatens the economy and jeopardizes our country's goal of reducing harmful greenhouse gas pollution.

Closer examination of canceled health insurance policies reveals their inadequacy

Samuel J. English III, a former WBAL-TV staff announcer and weather forecaster who later held broadcasting positions at Maryland Public Television and Towson University, died Sunday of respiratory failure at his Pikesville home. He was 79.

Changes to the county code regarding mining operations have been described as clarifications by Lehigh Cement Co., but residents have argued the changes could have a significant impact on their community.

A recap of the Oct. 6 episode of 'The Amazing Race," as the contestants learn of salt, shoes and buses

EPA rules governing carbon emissions from new power plants give U.S. a chance to make real progress on global warming

Maryland's Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin joined environmentalists in praising the Obama administration's announcement Friday that it is moving to curb carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants.

Richard P. Hughes Jr., a port labor leader recalled as a "feared negotiator" who rose to become president of the International Longshoremen's Association, died of heart and lung disease Sept. 11 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Researchers say two-thirds of nearly 100 rivers and streams checked across the eastern United States, including the Patuxent and Potomac rivers, have become more alkaline over the past 25 to 60 years.

A Howard County startup is trying to prove that its algae bioreactors are an answer to greenhouse-gas pollution.

President Obama's latest climate change plan may prove helpful but U.S. will need to do much more to address the coming storm

President Obama will unveil a sweeping plan today to cut the nation's carbon pollution while also preparing communities for the impacts of climate change. Largely bypassing Congress, he proposes to curb power plant emissions, boost renewable energy production and enhance appliance and building efficiency.