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To investigate the possibly of future water rate increases, Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. 'Jack' Young on Monday will request a hearing to discuss a request by the Department of Public Works to borrow up to $2 billion.

Obama administration unveils a climate change plan already demonstrated to work by Maryland and other states with cap-and-trade

Environmental regulators said Thursday they have given the final go-ahead for construction of the Harbor Point project, allowing the developer to begin driving pilings next week for a new Exelon Corp. office tower at the former factory site laced with toxic chemicals.

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A 21.9-acre parcel on campus in Catonsville declared surplus by state

A 30-second TV spot by Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler touts his record enforcing environmental laws, but it makes two claims that are overstated.

A Baltimore nonprofit AmeriCorps program will receive $200,000 in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant money to train 72 city residents for careers in environmental cleanup work.

The would-be developers of a residential neighborhood in Frederick are suing the federal government over groundwater contamination from neighboring Fort Detrick.

The legal blogosphere was buzzing last month with the discovery of a major gaffe in a Supreme Court decision that had just been released. What attracted all the attention was not so much the substance of the error — misrepresenting the position of the Environmental Protection Agency in a case decided in 2001 — but its source: Justice Antonin Scalia, the author of the Court's decision in the 2001 case.

With debris from last week's deluge still littering the Inner Harbor, the city is poised to launch a new tool in its fight against the rafts of floating trash that routinely gross out Baltimore's waterfront visitors and residents alike.

New Gansler ad highlights 2007 bay cleanup agreement. A second ad in Baltimore will focus on education.

Supreme Court's support of EPA curbs on out-of-state air pollution is life-saving news for downwind states like Maryland

EPA's new five-year plan calls for doing fewer inspections and fewer enforcement actions, which worries some environmentalists. Agency officials say they intend to focus on the most important cases and use technology to help target their efforts.

Air quality has improved a lot in Maryland and nationwide over the past 15 years, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. But summertime smog levels in Harford and Prince George's counties are still among the worst in the country, the group found.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Maryland Port Administration a $750,000 grant to extend the port of Baltimore's Dray Truck Replacement Program through March 2016, the port announced Monday.

Baltimore has joined with other major US cities in defending the federal government's authority to impose a "pollution diet" on the Chesapeake Bay.

Think sunshine — not just sweetness — when you see the Domino Sugars sign lighting up the Inner Harbor at night.

Dumping out nine gallons of water is essentially what happens each time a chicken is purchased; that's how much water it takes to slaughter one bird, according to the EPA. This is one reason the first recommendation issued by the United Nations for World Water Day each spring urges us to "replace meat with another source of protein." In short, just skipping that one purchase of a chicken could save more water than not showering for six months — not that I'd recommend trying the latter.

Thousands of scientists and researchers federal agencies have been hired in recent years under special hiring authority intended to help the government compete with the private sector for senior leadership positions. Government watchdogs warn, however, that officials must use the powers judiciously.

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.

Decision to let Carroll and Frederick counties avoid imposing a stormwater fee by tapping property taxes instead unleashes a flood of problems for county, the state and the Chesapeake Bay

In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still stagnant economy, President Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point. In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.

Latest United Nations report details more widespread dangers of climate change that governments and business are ill-prepared to address

Tya Courtney, who grew up in foster care, bought her first home through a program offered by Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake.

Environmental regulators gave a key approval to Harbor Point developers Thursday, but said they need to review more data before work that would open a currently-closed toxic waste site can start.

Richard P. Healy, an environmental engineer whose career with the Environmental Protection Agency spanned more than three decades, died Saturday of cancer at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 61.

The family that owns the Black Olive restaurant and runs the Inn at The Black Olive is monitoring the air outside the hotel — across the street from the planned Harbor Point development — as a check on the official monitoring happening on site.

Gas prices in Maryland reached a six-month high of $3.54 per gallon on Friday, a price last seen at local pumps in September, according to AAA.

As officials roll out a long-planned expansion of street sweeping from downtown and central Baltimore to more than 90 percent of the city beginning in April, they say they will be relying on cooperation from residents rather than enforcement efforts.

The Food & Water Watch organization claims that the chicken companies operating on Maryland's Eastern Shore are the Chesapeake "Bay's biggest polluters" and that they are getting a free ride on the backs of the taxpayers. The facts speak otherwise.

Environmental regulators said Wednesday that construction on the Harbor Point project could begin by the end of the month, after they approved a plan to measure air quality at the toxic former factory site.

President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.9 trillion federal budget on Tuesday that calls for spending billions more on infrastructure, raising taxes on the wealthy and closing an income inequality gap the president has made a top target of his second term.

EPA's fuel pollution rule won't hurt the Port of Baltimore.