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New phosphorous rules not ready for prime time

Even a favorable Supreme Court decision in EPA case likely won't go far enough to protect Maryland and other East Coast states from upwind air polluters

Maryland joined seven other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states Monday in asking for federal help to curb air pollution from beyond their borders, saying their residents' health and their economies are being hurt by smog-forming emissions from the Midwest and South.

Maryland joined seven other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states Monday in asking for federal help to curb air pollution from outside their borders, saying emissions from the Midwest and South are hurting their residents' health and their economies.

Harbor Point will be built safely without further studies

Latest 'barometer' finds Chesapeake Bay remains badly pollution but there is reason for optimism in the long-term

Additional studies of the Harbor Point area in Baltimore are needed to reduce what can best be defined as an unacceptable level of uncertainty about the safety of a proposed development project there.

President Barack Obama has nominated a Towson resident and Johns Hopkins professor to lead research and development at the Environmental Protection Agency — an appointment likely to stir controversy among senators concerned about the agency's reach.

Amid an outcry from Maryland farmers, state officials pulled back again Friday from a new regulation aimed at cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay by restricting the use of animal manure to fertilize crops.

There is too much uncertainty about Maryland's finances to endorse even a small increase in the borrowing limit next year.

Liquefied natural gas exporting would be good for Maryland's economy and the environment.

The developer planning to build a new waterfront headquarters for Exelon Corp. on the site of a former chromium processing plant assured Fells Point area residents Thursday night the Harbor Point project could be built safely without releasing the highly contaminated soil and ground water entombed beneath the site.

The rain isn't going to stop, nor the flooding, so polluted runoff from storm water needs to be dealt with, sooner rather than later.

A public meeting tonight (Thursday) will give Baltimore residents a chance to ask questions about environmental safeguards for developing Harbor Point, a former factory site in Fells Point where toxic chromium remains entombed underground.

Sherwin-Williams is one of a handful of companies that have signed on to spruce up their properties in industrial South Baltimore, part of a new initiative to enlist businesses, nonprofits and government agencies there in helping to boost the city's anemic tree canopy, attract more wildlife and restore its degraded urban waters.

A Harford County farmer who has worked to ensure his descendants and descendants of other local farmers carry on the practice was named the 2013 Farmer of the Year by the members of the Harford County Farm Bureau.

Maryland point guard Varun Ram used to get stares from opposing guards who thought they could dominate him on the court. When he played at River Hill in Clarksville and with a Howard County-based Amateur Athletic Union team, Ram said few opponents would take him or his teams seriously.

The Chesapeake Bay's cleanup may be delayed "several decades" by the slow pace at which farm pollution is being flushed from ground water on the Delmarva Peninsula, a new study says. The research by the U.S. Geological Survey also suggests pollution control efforts on Eastern Shore farms may need to be increased in order to achieve hoped-for water quality improvements.

Reducing air pollution has given an unexpectedly big boost to long-running efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, a new study finds. Resarchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science determined that nitrogen pollution in nine mostly forested Appalachian rivers and streams has declined in tandem with government-mandated air pollution reductions for power plants and motor vehicles.

Turning up the heat on local politicians over an unpopular stormwater fee, Maryland officials have warned Carroll County that it faces fines of up to $10,000 per day for refusing to impose the mandatory pollution cleanup charge, and cautioned two other counties they could be next.

Harford County could face stiff fines and other enforcement actions from the state and federal governments if county officials repeal a local stormwater management fee, also known as the "rain tax," the state government's top environmental official warned Harford officials last month.

Maryland's candidates for governor must either defend the 'rain tax' or explain why a major source of water pollution should be ignored

Demonstration held after EPA called for more information Friday

Plans for redeveloping a former chromium factory site in Fells Point hit a new snag Friday, as federal and state regulators called for changes in the Harbor Point developer's plans for protecting the public from toxic contaminants in the ground during construction of an office building there for Exelon Corp.

Climate change is a looming problem that will affect developed and developing countries.

A public meeting on environmental safeguards for redeveloping a Fells Point former factory site has been reset for Nov. 14, Baltimore City Council member James B. Kraft announced.

Hydrofracking risks outweigh the rewards in Maryland

A federal judge has denied - for now, at least -the environmental group Blue Water Baltimore's bid to intervene in the city's effort to delay its court-decreed deadline for fixing the sewage leaks that routinely foul local streams and Baltimore's harbor.

The Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort got a $9.2 million injection of funds Wednesday, as the Environmental Protection Agency and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced grants to 40 projects to reduce storm-water and farm pollution, rebuild oyster reefs and restore trout streams and other habitats across the six-state watershed.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to help educate Baltimore families about the risks to young children of lead poisoning, which despite progress made in reducing exposure over the years still affects nearly 3,000 youngsters across Maryland.

In a northern city like Baltimore, the energy savings from an 'eco-roof' may not pan out.

Kittleman senator and Republican county executive candidate Allan Kittleman has prefiled legislation to repeal the Watershed Protection and Restoration Program, he announced Monday

A new analysis of the nation's farm animal industry finds almost no reforms have been made in the five years since a broad-based commission called for sweeping changes to address concerns about food safety, animal welfare and the environmental impacts of modern poultry and livestock production.

A labor strike and neighborhood protests over an intermodal terminal are troubling developments for the Port of Baltimore

As the late budget agreement cleared the way for federal workers across Maryland to go back to work and government offices to reopen Thursday, attention in Washington shifted to the next fiscal deadline: Jan. 15, when funding is set to run out again.

Recent Open Forum letters from Kingsville and Bel Air writers concerning the Tea Party and Republicans are good examples of low information voters and those who have a twisted slant on history to suit their wacky agendas.

Latest report from UN panel shows the threat of man-made climate change is real and should not be ignored

Harford County Executive David R. Craig describes himself as a moderate by temperament but he is staking out positions on critical issues that seem certain to appeal to the Republican party's hard-core conservative base as he seeks the 2014 gubernatorial nomination.

Even as some Fells Point residents worry that building over toxic soil at Harbor Point could endanger their health, records show elevated levels of cancer-causing chromium in groundwater just beyond the site targeted for an upscale development.