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The use of FOIA has dramatically increased in the first year of the Trump administration. But government efforts to withhold records and government censorship (known as “redaction”) rose even faster.

Claims that EPA has wrongly adhered to 'secret science' are a bunch of not-so-secret malarkey.

EPA administrator should be praised for promoting transparency in scientific study.

Maryland reached a $33.5 million settlement with Volkswagen over its violation of pollution standards, the last of several penalties in the state for the automaker.

EPA administrator uses a 'transparency' in science pitch to sell the usual handouts to polluters.

Back in 1970, I was a cub just out of law school and working in my first real job with the National Wildlife Federation in Washington when Sen. Gaylord Nelson called a meeting on the Hill to lay out plans for the first Earth Day. Little did we know it would still be going strong 48 years later.

bs-ed-op-0418-reich-china-20180417. America has always had an industrial policy, says Robert Reich. The real question is whether it's forward- or backward-looking

Marching with the horde of physicists, economists, biologists and others during the March for Science last year, I knew I could not work for a president who attacks the very foundations of knowledge. So I left the EPA behind, but I held on to my appreciation for nature.

The Hogan administration is joining several other states in opposing President Donald Trump’s move to relax vehicle emissions standards.

With EPA seeking to roll back fuel efficiency standards, states must again take the lead on fighting pollution and climate change.

Md. environment secretary: Under Gov. Larry Hogan’s leadership, Maryland is living up to its strong commitment to environmental protection and climate change progress — and to protecting the health of our citizens.

A $1.3 trillion federal spending bill working its way through Congress this week sets aside $73 million for Chesapeake Bay restoration and would continue to provide funding for other Maryland priorities previously threatened by deep cuts.

A Maryland General Assembly proposal to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos has failed amid concerns it could stop an invasion of the spotted lanternfly. President Donald Trump's EPA has been accused of ignoring the pesticide's health risks.

The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned a decision to cut federal grant funding for the Bay Journal following an outcry from advocates who said it raised questions about the Trump administration’s commitment to Chesapeake Bay restoration.

Maryland's governor rightfully opposes House Republicans' effort to pull EPA out of Chesapeake Bay cleanup.

As Washington lawmakers work on a deal to fund the federal government, Gov. Larry Hogan has asked U.S. Senate leaders to kill a House proposal to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority in Chesapeake Bay cleanup work.

For a second consecutive year, President Donald Trump is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support of cleanups for iconic U.S. waterways including the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay.

Under legislation proposed in the General Assembly, the Maryland Department of the Environment would begin testing air quality in communities with large concentrations of chicken farms. Farmers say such testing is unnecessary because they haven't observed any negative health effects.

Eleven Democratic state attorneys general have sued the Trump administration for holding off a government rule aimed at reducing pollution in the nation's

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate committee Tuesday that the decision to cut grant funding for the Chesapeake Bay Journal was “under reconsideration.”

Trump administration's attack on clean air must be defended at the state level.

Under EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the agency is slowly being dismantled. He and Trump have already canceled or overridden some key environmental regulations on coal waste and vehicle emissions, and the 2018 appropriations bill cuts the EPA’s budget for the Superfund program and climate change

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and General Assembly leaders held a hearing Thursday calling on the Trump administration and Environmental Protection Agency to keep the Obama-era Clean Power Plan in place.

Gov. Larry Hogan's administration is pressing the Trump Environmental Protection Agency not to abandon an Obama-era plan to cut air pollution, known as the Clean Power Plan.

Maryland has joined several other northeastern states in suing the EPA in an effort to hold other states accountable for pollution that blows into the region, creating hazardous summertime smog.

Here we go again. Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is using our money to assuage his paranoia by having his office swept for

A state renewable energy program is sending millions of dollars of ratepayer subsidies to Baltimore's biggest polluter, the Wheelabrator incinerator. Community activists in South Baltimore are trying to increase recycling to essentially put the incinerator out of business.

President Trump act of clemency toward elephants is welcome but do only cute endangered animals get favor?

Vital conservation protections are being lost by Trump's self-loathing EPA.

The Trump administration clings to coal despite its declining use —  and this fact: Coal continues to be the nation’s top source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, a major cause of global warming.

There has been much attention lately about the appropriateness of offensive speech on college campuses and the larger issue of free speech in general. Americans seem to be all about free speech when it comes to their individual beliefs, but not so much when it comes to issues they disagree with.

Environmentalists and Democrats are urging the Hogan administration to implement rules for coal-fired power plants earlier than the Trump administration suggested.

The Trump administration's EPA threatens to rollback hard-won gains in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.

Disagreements among policymakers regarding global weather extremes, and whether human behavior shares among the causes, should serve as a clarion call for more science, not less, involving people from all camps on the issue.

The EPA is becoming a contradiction in name.

Scott Pruitt, as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is responsible for enforcing environmental laws such as the Clean Water and Clean Air

Maryland aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030, but the Trump EPA's repeal of the Obama Clean Power Plan could make that more difficult.

There is virtually nothing about the Trump administration’s decision to overturn the Clean Power Plan, the EPA rule limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, that makes sense.

President Donald Trump's administration said Monday it will repeal rules former President Barack Obama set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but that were criticized as federal overreach.

Government should side with children and fish who can’t breathe, not utility owners looking to pad their bottom line.

President Donald Trump on Friday moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Maryland and the District of Columbia alleging his real estate empire has received unconstitutional gifts.

Attorney General Brian Frosh filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, demanding that it address interstate air pollution.

Federal enforcement remains critical to future of the nation's largest estuary.

A bill to fund the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal programs from December through September 2018 would strip the agency of its power to enforce a Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan.

President Donald Trump's EPA has cut short a multi-year grant funding the Chesapeake Bay Journal.

President Donald Trump and his administration are expressing moral values that have no market value, says Rev. Jesse Jackson.

The Hogan administration notified the EPA that it plans to file a suit alleging that it has failed to act against states whose smokestack emissions pollute Maryland's air.

Baltimore is encouraged by the EPA to apply to a loan to help pay for water infrastructure improvements.

Maryland environmental regulators are developing new rules for the BRESCO trash incinerator on Russell Street, which creates twice as much ozone pollution as a similar facility in Montgomery County.

It's been a tough week for environmental protection but is it the voters' will?