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

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

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

By Scott Dance

Jun 14, 2019

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.

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

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

The Environmental Protection Agency should not weaken mercury air standards.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A recent letter to the editor got some facts wrong about the Chesapeake Bay.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Taiwan has instituted several successful environmental initiatives that could be an example for other countries.

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.

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

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

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

The Trump administration's actions on methane fit a pattern of climate change-related actions that are putting lives at risk.

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

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.

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.

Americans should not have to tolerate more lives lost to air pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Ben Carson's reputation may be in tatters but that's not unusual in the Trump cabinet.

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

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

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.

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

President Trump has given the green light to polluting gas guzzlers.

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?

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.

Levels of key pollutants are down but latest report shows region must do more to meet clean water standards.

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

By allowing highly polluting, rebuilt trucks on the road, EPA's Scott Pruitt cements his legacy as an environmental disaster.

Few, if any, cabinet members, have been held to a lower ethical standard than the EPA's Scott Pruitt.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Even in a time of fakery and false witness, Scott Pruitt sets a new standard.

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

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

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.