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Charlie Brown is in trouble with the Environmental Protection Agency, Lucy knows the Earth has 48 suns and Snoopy and Linus are planting French fries in the garden. These are just a few of the misadventures and explanations gone wrong as the Peanuts Gang explores the natural world in Peanuts... Naturally, an exhibition being hosted by Harford County Public Library January 29 to April 24.

January is Radon Action Month, as promoted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a campaign designed to encourage homeowners to take simple steps to ensure they are not being exposed to the radioactive gas, which can cause lung cancer

Baltimore has failed to live up to the terms of a 13-year-old consent decree to clean up its failing sewage system

Emission controls required on out-of-state power plants have yielded big reductions in mercury pollution in Western Maryland's air, a study has found. So far, however, the state's fish remain as contaminated with the toxic chemical as ever, researchers say.

Friday, the Abell Foundation will release its report, The Chesapeake Bay and Agricultural Pollution: The Problem, Possible Solutions, and the Need for Verification. Why did a foundation focused on urban poverty take on agriculture pollution? Someone has to pay millions of dollars to remove nitrates and phosphorus from water.

State environmental officials announced Monday that Maryland is joining other states in seeking potentially stiff penalties and repairs from Volkswagen for rigging its vehicles' software to hide how much smog-forming pollution they were spewing into the air.

Monday, leaders from across the globe will gather in Paris to discuss the world's most critical environmental issues. When they do, environmental justice issues that disproportionately affect communities of color should be on the agenda.

American Farm Bureau Federation has made a poor choice in appealing the EPA's Chesapeake Bay 'blueprint' to the Supreme Court

NASA has agreed to pay $50,660 to settle environmental violations at its Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.

Legitimate concerns raised that Hogan administration nitrogen oxide standards are too lax

Maryland is joining 16 other states backing the Obama administration in a legal dispute over its plan to curb climate-altering carbon emissions from power plants, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Wednesday.

The Baltimore County Council's stormwater fee repeal will help polluters and hurt regular taxpayers.

Who should pay for water pollution in Baltimore County? Proposed stormwater fee repeal lets polluters off the hook

The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort got a boost Tuesday from $11.5 million in government and private grants announced in Baltimore.

Researchers at Stanford University and at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health say school-prepared meals may contain unsafe levels of bisphenol A, or BPA.

The Environmental Protection Agency increased limits on smog-forming air pollution Thursday, saying the move is needed to protect the health of millions of children and others with respiratory problems.

In the wake of growing concerns about mold in multiple Howard County schools, Board of Education officials are set to launch a new advisory committee next week that will focus on the environment inside school buildings ¿ though some parents say they don't think the group's mission goes far enough.

After spending $700 million over the past 13 years, the city of Baltimore plans to drop another $400 million to fix an aging, leaky sewer system that routinely fouls areas streams and the harbor with raw human waste. But less than four months before a court-ordered deadline, the overhaul is nowhere near done.

Loss of Eastern Shore pollution monitoring stations is a problem poultry industry should fix

Climate change a serious threat certain to be worsened by arctic drilling and oil exports

Maryland must take additional steps to protect Eastern Shore tributaries from millions of pounds of chicken manure

The Environmental Protection Agency praised Maryland's efforts to curb farm animal pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, calling them "robust and well-implemented." But the laudatory press release omitted any mention of compliance and inspection shortcomings that agency officials found in the state.

Reducing carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants doesn't necessarily reduce the other poisonous emissions from coal combustion. In contrast, reducing the amount of power we need avoids all the pollution that generating that power would produce. Corny but true, the cheapest (and healthiest) watt is the one you don't use — the negawatt.

One in three children goes to school inside a chemical plant danger zone.

Logicide — the death of logic, especially by officials who lack the convictions to stand and defend policy based on science, economics, the Constitution, and a discernible moral compass.

New carbon limits are likely to cost jobs, raise electricity prices and do little to global temperatures, says Cal Thomas.

Hogan chicanery won't clean Maryland's air.

Maryland regulators unveiled a new plan for reducing smog-forming pollution from coal-burning power plants, but it drew criticism from both the industry and environmentalists.

Leaders of the multi-state Chesapeake Bay restoration effort acknowledged Thursday that the pollution cleanup pace is lagging and vowed to catch up, though they offered no specifics.

Senator has demonstrated a willingness to protect nation's rivers and streams

Weekly tests conducted along some Harford County streams that are popular for swimming this summer found levels of harmful bacteria that are well above the federal Environmental Protection Agency's safety standard for recreation, especially after a heavy rains.

Instead of new EPA regulations, what U.S. needs is a carbon tax to discourage harmful air pollution like mercury

The Supreme Court ruled Monday against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants, but it may only be a temporary setback for regulators.

Court's choice to toss EPA power plant rules leaves Americans at greater risk of birth defects and other ills

Cleaning up the Bay

U.S. has taken the first step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft but will it be enough?

Maryland is mostly on track to do its part in the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, but Pennsylvania is lagging badly, according to federal officials.

The Baltimore region's air pollution, once second-worst in the nation, has cleared up so much that levels of breath-robbing ozone no longer exceed the limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But that success may be short-lived.

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.

University of Maryland study finds emissions linked to the controversial drilling technique commonly called fracking" in the air in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., far from the nearest natural gas well.

Rain tax or no, reducing harmful stormwater runoff begins at home

Earth Day's impact was immediate: bipartisan support in Congress led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Act.

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.

Harford County school officials have canceled overnight and weekend sessions at the Harford Glen Environmental Education Center near Bel Air while staff and an exterminator monitor the facility for bed bugs, a spokesperson for Harford County Public Schools said Thursday.

WASHINGTON -- Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday criticized a bipartisan bill intended to overhaul federal chemical regulations because it would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to preempt the oversight of some chemicals by states.