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- Longtime build-up of silt and sediment at Conowingo Dam is a concern but not an excuse to reduce Maryland's Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts
- To combat pollution plaguing the marsh habitat, about 250 volunteers picked up trash, dredged debris, planted trees and tended the wetland's gardens Saturday as part of a cleanup event hosted by the aquarium and the National Parks Conservation Association.
- A top Environmental Protection Agency official visited Baltimore Thursday to make the case for a new federal rule spelling out what streams and wetlands enjoy legal protection from development or disturbance.
- Columbia Gas Transmission continues to wait for state permission to move forward with its proposed parallel pipeline through the Fallston area, as residents fight lawsuits from the company to take or use their land.
- Layering on another environmental impact statement to the Cove Point LNG export proposal — potentially adding significant delays and expense so soon after another impact statement has been completed — is like asking a driver to begin with a learner's permit every time the license is renewed.
- Columbia Gas Transmission said Monday that it expects to begin work on a 21-mile pipeline through Baltimore and Harford counties next year after winning federal approval for the $180 million project, one that drew heated opposition from neighbors.
- Col. Erland A. Tillman, a decorated career Army officer and noted civil engineer who helped design the Maryland Transit Administration's Metro subway from Owings Mills into downtown Baltimore, died of complications from heart failure Sept. 6 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
- NEPA prevented great harm to the Chesapeake Bay, but now some in Congress want to undermine it
- Development proposals, both public and private, have fallen through over the years, and the island has been overrun by thousands of birds. But members of the family that owns Fort Carroll and they still have hopes for it.
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- Additional work will be done to stabilize the banks of Plumtree Run south of George Street in Bel Air under a contract addendum passed by the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners at the most recent town meeting.
- The Maryland Port Administration is completing its initial review of a multimillion-dollar proposal that would turn Baltimore harbor shipping channel muck into bucks.
- Citizen involvement made the difference when Hurricane Isaac struck
- New levees helped protect New Orleans from Hurricane Isaac, but it took a lot of work to get the government to build them.
- Not everyone is feted with the sort of grand, two-day celebration that marked the centennial of Lutherville resident and retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Col. Erland Tillman.
- Underwater surveys of the shoreline along a state park in Southern Maryland turned up eight more World War II era military explosives, according to fire officials.
- Study eyes Chesapeake pollution threat from sediment buildup behind Susquehanna dams
- There were no reported injuries in Ocean City as Hurricane Irene passed through and tourists will be allowed back in starting at noon when the town officially reopens.