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WASHINGTON — Maryland's Democrat-heavy congressional delegation will have far less clout when lawmakers gavel in a new Congress next year, casting doubt on a long list of state priorities from federal employee pay to environmental regulations that could affect the Chesapeake Bay. - State and federal environmental officials have reached cleanup agreements with the owners of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.
- Maryland's Atlantic Ocean beaches earned high marks for water quality in a recent report but polluted runoff remains a serious threat to human health
- Government officials involved in the multistate Chesapeake Bay cleanup pledged Monday to broaden and accelerate the long-running effort, including a vow to address the impacts of climate change on the ailing estuary.
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- Despite early progress reducing Chesapeake Bay pollution, levels of a key pollutant, phosphorus, have not come down in many rivers in the past decade — and are actually worsening in several, officials say.
- The Anne Arundel County Department of Health has advised against swimming and other water recreation at Lake Ogleton Clubhouse Pier in Annapolis after high levels of bacteria were detected this week.
- 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
- Although hookah lounges are becoming more popular, smoking flavored tobacco through water pipes creates hazardous concentrations of indoor air pollution, according to a new study from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Reductions in power plant emissions represent important foreign policy initiative
- Nearly 20 years afterward, the Kennedy Krieger Institute continues to defend itself against lawsuits alleging that a study it sponsored seeking less costly methods of remediating lead paint in homes poisoned some of the children whose families were recruited to participate in the research.
- New EPA rules a reminder that climate change affects us all
- New EPA standards are vital to the bay's future health
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- Most of us are not experts on climate science, but unlike the GOP, most of us have the good sense to listen to those who are.
