Category: Environment
Sheep graze beneath the solar panels: a winning solution
With many solar arrays ending up on farmland, a movement is fast taking hold to make sure that they will benefit the environment, agriculture and wildlife, and not just create a sea of silicon. Allowing sheep to graze among solar panels has become one attractive antidote.
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More than 800 solar projects in Bay states stuck waiting for review
By Ad Crable and Timothy B. Wheeler Bay Journal News Service The rollout of solar and other...
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There’s too much salt on our roads
Following our weekend snow event earlier this month, it is clear that the problem of salt usage on...
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Leave it to beavers: Can they help rebuild a better Chesapeake?
By Karl Blankenship Bay Journal Scott McGill was standing beside a stream that, to many people,...
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NASA wants to sell 105 acres of woods it owns in Greenbelt; environmentalists, Cardin, Hoyer opposed ; next-door U.S. wildlife refuge says it can’t afford to buy
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has used its orbiting satellites to help...
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After two years, consensus on oyster policy still elusive in Maryland
It’s hard to come together over oysters in Maryland. Two years ago, seeking to get past seemingly endless conflicts between environmentalists and watermen, Maryland lawmakers ordered fisheries managers to try a more consensus-based approach to managing the state’s oyster population. After meeting more than two dozen times, the DNR panel reported Dec. 1 that it had agreed on 19 recommendations — only one of which called for doing anything different about oyster management.
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Solar farms don’t belong in Montgomery’s ag reserve; they belong on rooftops
The county should have rejected the program outright and, instead, concentrate on promoting rooftop solar panels. Stripping away euphemism, solar farms have nothing in common with agriculture; indeed they harm our food chain and the environment as a whole.
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Advancing energy innovation as an economic development strategy for Maryland
By I. Katherine Magruder Executive Director, Maryland Clean Energy Center Maryland is home to...
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MD threatens to sue EPA, PA over lack of action as regional tensions rise
The year 2010 closed with the unveiling of a new Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan lauded by states, federal officials and environmentalists as the rigorous, concrete and enforceable plan that would finally deliver on the promise of a clean and healthy Bay.
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Maryland to phase in manure restrictions without delay
Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joseph Bartenfelder declared Monday that he saw no need to delay a state regulation that restricts the use of animal manure to fertilize farm fields, despite a study warning there are likely to be problems dealing with the excess manure that is expected to result.
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New federal budget boosts Chesapeake Bay funding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program, which guides the overall restoration work throughout the six-state watershed, will get $85 million, the most it’s ever received. That’s a 16% increase over what the program received annually from Congress for the last five years. It’s also almost $78 million more than the Trump White House had asked for this year. That request would have resulted in a nearly 90% cut to the Bay Program budget.
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Young-of-year rockfish have another poor year in Md., better in Va.
Striped bass, whose population has been in decline for a decade and a half, suffered from another poor year of reproduction in Maryland, though the news was better in Virginia. Maryland’s annual young-of-year index was just 3.4, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, well below the long-term average of 11.6. It was the ninth time in the last 14 years that the state’s index reflected below-average reproduction in the state.
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