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Experts warn of 'dead zone' in Chesapeake Bay from pollution

The Conowingo Dam, full of sediment, can't contain pollutants coming down the Susquehanna from Pennsylvania, which heavy rains flush into the bay.

By By Davd McFadden

Jul 7, 2019
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U.S. House approves increased funding for Chesapeake Bay cleanup, but Senate support uncertain

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to increase federal funding for multistate Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts from $73 million to $85 million.

By Scott Dance

Jun 25, 2019
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Maryland petitions interstate panel to help reduce pollution blowing in from Pennsylvania coal plants

Maryland is asking the Ozone Transport Commission to push for greater pollution controls at Pennsylvania coal power plants.

By Scott Dance

Jun 14, 2019
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation slams Pennsylvania's plan to reduce pollution as 'woefully inadequate'

A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is once again lambasting Pennsylvania for not doing enough to protect the nation's largest estuary.

By Ben Finley

May 28, 2019
- Environment
Trump signs orders making it harder for states to block energy projects; Hogan warns of threat to Chesapeake

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan opposes President Donald Trump's two executive orders designed to speed up oil and gas pipeline projects.

By Darlene Superville and Kevin Freking

Apr 10, 2019
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Governors of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware join Maryland in asking for more federal Chesapeake Bay funding

The governors of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Delaware and the mayor of Washington, D.C., joined Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in asking Congressional leaders to increase the federal budget for Chesapeake Bay cleanup Wednesday.

By Scott Dance

Apr 3, 2019
- Opinion
EPA should not weaken mercury air standards

The Environmental Protection Agency should not weaken mercury air standards.
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Maryland Gov. Hogan says he'll 'fight hard' against Trump proposal to gut Chesapeake Bay cleanup program

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is calling Trump administration plans to drastically curtail a federal Chesapeake Bay cleanup program "a betrayal" and says he will fight the proposed budget cut.

By Scott Dance

Mar 13, 2019
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President Trump's budget increases defense spending, slashes domestic programs, including for Chesapeake Bay

President Donald Trump proposed a record $4.7 trillion federal budget for 2020 on Monday, which increases military spending while making historic cuts to domestic programs.

By Christina Tkacik

Mar 11, 2019
- Opinion
When it comes to pesticides and children's health, Maryland should err on the side of safety

A dangerous pesticide is a dangerous pesticide, and if EPA won't ban it willingly, Maryland ought to step in to protect the public.

By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board

Feb 12, 2019
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Direct mailing urges residents to oppose Baltimore's clean air act. Here's what the bill would do.

Wheelabrator Baltimore sent direct mail to city residents urging the City Council to reject its proposed Clean Air Ordinance. Here's what the bill would do, and what the flyer left out.

By Scott Dance

Feb 4, 2019
- Opinion
Protect Maryland: Ban chlorpyrifos

Maryland has taken several important stepsto protect our state and its residents from the harmful decisions of the Trump administration. Another crucial step we must take: ban chlorpyrifos, a toxic nerve agent pesticide proven to cause brain damage in children and harm the environment.

By Dana Stein and Shirley Nathan-Pulliam

Jan 31, 2019
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Maryland will test to determine if Eastern Shore chicken farms are polluting the air

A year after fighting off a proposal to monitor air pollution levels around industrial-scale chicken houses on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the poultry industry has joined with state environmental regulators to study whether the farms are polluting the air.

By Scott Dance

Jan 29, 2019
- Opinion
Correcting some facts about the Chesapeake Bay

A recent letter to the editor got some facts wrong about the Chesapeake Bay.
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Maryland to receive $6 million in diesel emissions test cheating settlements with Fiat Chrysler, Bosch

Fiat Chrysler and auto supplier Bosch will pay Maryland more than $6 million to settle allegations that they were involved in use of illegal devices to make diesel vehicles to appear to meet emissions requirements when they did not. The payments are part of a larger national settlement.

By Scott Dance

Jan 10, 2019
- Opinion
Chesapeake Bay's weakened federal partner takes another hit

Don't assume that state wetlands protections will spare Maryland and other Chesapeake Bay states from adverse impact of latest federal deregulation on clean water.

By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board

Dec 18, 2018
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EPA names Pennsylvania environmental official Dana Aunkst as director of Chesapeake Bay Program

Pennsylvania environmental official Dana Aunkst will serve as director of the federal Chesapeake Bay Program, based in Annapolis. The Environmental Protection Agency announced his appointment Wednesday. Aunkst replaces Nick DiPasquale, who retired a year ago.

By Scott Dance

Dec 12, 2018
- Opinion
Restoring the Chesapeake Bay: a decades-old bipartisan effort

Since its very inception, restoring the Chesapeake has been a bipartisan effort, starting in 1973 with Sen. Charles “Mac” Mathias. It's our job to make sure it continues to be today.

By Chanté Coleman

Dec 12, 2018
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Chesapeake Bay advocates raise concern about Trump proposal pulling back federal regulation of streams and wetlands

The Trump administration has proposed removing small streams, isolated wetlands and other waterways from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority, a move proponents say simplifies a complex Obama-era rule. Environmental advocates say the changes could threaten Chesapeake Bay cleanup.

By Scott Dance

Dec 11, 2018
- Opinion
Look to Taiwan on how to address climate change

Taiwan has instituted several successful environmental initiatives that could be an example for other countries.
- Maryland
Citizens ask council to seek more environmental tests for Hampstead Overlook property

Hampstead resident Brittany Phillips implored the Town Council at its Nov. 13 meeting to employ environmental tests organized by the Environmental Protection Agency. Mayor Christopher Nevin asked Phillips to meet one-on-one to discuss the matter. She and others in the audience were not satisfied.

By Alex Mann

Nov 15, 2018
- Commentary
Zirpoli: Who is the EPA protecting?

The next time you hear someone complaining about unnecessary environmental regulations, point them to North Carolina and the environmental disaster millions of citizens there face. As a result of lax state environmental regulations and new EPA rules favoring polluters, the health of a million Nort

By Tom Zirpoli

Oct 3, 2018
- Environment
From environmental hazard to water feature: Tradepoint Atlantic touts cleanup of polluted canal at former steel mill

Tradepoint Atlantic touted its progress in cleaning up Tin Mill Canal, a man-made ditch that carried stormwater at the old Bethlehem Steel mill in Sparrows Point.

By Pamela Wood

Sep 26, 2018
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Maryland is taking the EPA to court over air pollution coming from upwind states

Maryland plans to take the Trump administration to federal appeals court over an Environmental Protection Agency decision rejecting the state's petition to limit coal power plant emissions in upwind states.

By Scott Dance

Sep 17, 2018
- Opinion
Florence worsened by climate change

The Trump administration's actions on methane fit a pattern of climate change-related actions that are putting lives at risk.
- Opinion
Hurricane Florence may reshape the climate change debate

With potentially historic Hurricane Florence fed by warm ocean waters bearing down, the EPA looks to relax more greenhouse gas emission rules.

By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board

Sep 11, 2018
- Opinion
The hidden agenda of the EPA 'transparency rule'

On the surface, the proposed EPA 'transparency rule' sounds harmless, even open-minded, doesn’t it? After all, transparency is an important principle of good science. But, the truth is, President Trump and his band of climate changers, has pulled a fast one. Here’s why.

By A.J. Russo

Sep 5, 2018
- Opinion
UMD extension: The aerial spray is OK

Over the past few weeks, we have received many calls in University of Maryland Extension offices regarding aerial spraying. What’s being sprayed? Why is it being sprayed? Am I at risk? With many misconceptions surrounding modern agriculture, people worry. Here's why you shouldn't.

By Andrew Kness and Erika Crowl

Sep 4, 2018
- Opinion
Thousands of deaths from relaxed air pollution rules a high price to pay

Americans should not have to tolerate more lives lost to air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
- Opinion
Ben Carson not worst Trump appointee, but he's in the running

Ben Carson's reputation may be in tatters but that's not unusual in the Trump cabinet.
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Trump EPA plan would give states more authority on coal plant emissions; Maryland officials wary

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed a new set of rules that would give states greater control over limits on pollution from coal-fired power plants, and likely allow many of those plants to operate longer than they would have under a plan from former President Barack Obama.

By Scott Dance

Aug 21, 2018
- Opinion
Trump's costly coal-fired revival

With the stroke of a pen, the EPA has put President Trump's political interests ahead of protecting clean air and public health.

By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board

Aug 21, 2018
- News
State-mandated testing finds lead in water at two dozen local schools; Baltimore, Howard counties will test this year

Water at more than two dozen schools across the Baltimore region contains elevated levels of lead, revealed during tests mandated by a new state law. But the majority of schools — including all of them in Baltimore, Howard and Carroll counties — have not been tested yet.

By Scott Dance and Lauren Lumpkin

Aug 17, 2018
- News
Pennsylvania officials admit their state is behind in curbing Chesapeake pollution

A week after Gov. Larry Hogan and Pennsylvania leaders publicly sparred over Chesapeake Bay pollution, they are scheduled to discuss bay cleanup at a meeting Tuesday in Baltimore, along with representatives from other states

By Scott Dance

Aug 7, 2018
- Opinion
Trump EPA steers clean car policy into a ditch

President Trump has given the green light to polluting gas guzzlers.
- Opinion
EPA's reversal on trucks: a sign of things to come?

EPA's new administrator saw the harm in allowing more highly-polluting big rigs on the road - could it be the start of a trend?

By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board

Jul 27, 2018
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Air quality study over Chesapeake Bay seeks to understand pollution

State and federal agencies initiated a research study aimed at providing more detailed data on how and why the Chesapeake Bay seems to act as a magnet for ozone pollution.

By Liz Bowie

Jul 20, 2018
- Opinion
Chesapeake Bay: Better but not enough

Levels of key pollutants are down but latest report shows region must do more to meet clean water standards.
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Halfway to cleanup deadline, Chesapeake Bay hits goals for phosphorus, sediment, but misses nitrogen target

Halfway to a 2025 deadline to restore the Chesapeake Bay's health, watershed states have hit goals for reducing phosphorus and sediment pollution, but missed a target for nitrogen contamination.

By Scott Dance

Jul 17, 2018
- Opinion
Glider trucks, EPA's full throttle attack on clean air

By allowing highly polluting, rebuilt trucks on the road, EPA's Scott Pruitt cements his legacy as an environmental disaster.
- Opinion
What if Scott Pruitt shot a man on 5th Avenue?

Few, if any, cabinet members, have been held to a lower ethical standard than the EPA's Scott Pruitt.
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Former assistant administrator at EPA Lisa Feldt joins Chesapeake Bay Foundation

A former administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency has joined the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the organization announced Monday.

By Christina Tkacik

Jul 2, 2018
- News
Maryland officials press EPA to reconsider decision on upwind air pollution, threaten lawsuit

Maryland environmental officials are mounting a challenge to a recent Environmental Protection Agency decision in which the federal regulators said they wouldn’t force power plants from Pennsylvania to Indiana to tighten pollution controls.

By Scott Dance

Jun 7, 2018
- Environment
EPA to deny Maryland petition against emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it plans to deny petitions from both Maryland and Delaware seeking emissions reductions from power plants in five upwind states.
- Health
To repel ticks, try insecticide-treated clothes this summer

A new U.S. government study confirms that insecticide-treated clothes marketed for preventing tick-borne ills do, in fact, thwart the pests.

By Amy Norton

May 31, 2018
- Opinion
This is the only planet we've got, Mr. Trump

Enough is enough. The Trump administration, notorious for ignoring truths and making decisions based on lies, needs to be woken to the realization that this planet is a sensitive biosphere, and, once broken, everything living in it will succumb to destruction.

By A.J. Russo

May 30, 2018
- Opinion
Alternative Fact of the Week: Scott Pruitt's wild ride

Even in a time of fakery and false witness, Scott Pruitt sets a new standard.
- Opinion
Reich: Trump's friends have a different definition of 'financial hardship'

Robert Reich: Despite the regulatory "relief" and giant tax cut they're getting, America's rich aren't investing more than before.

By Robert B. REich

May 9, 2018
- Environment
Maryland joins 16 states and D.C. to sue EPA over vehicle emissions standards

Maryland, along with 16 other states and the District of Columbia, is suing President Donald Trump's administration demanding it leave in place vehicle emissions standards adopted under President Barack Obama.

By Scott Dance

May 1, 2018
- Opinion
Witcover: Trump's VA nominee takes his bizarre advice

The decision of White House physician Ronny Jackson to to get out of the kitchen rather than face any more fire, is only the latest head-scratcher coming from this incomprehensible gang of misfits who have descended on a capital already overstocked in them, and in both parties to boot.

By Jules Witcover

Apr 30, 2018

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