Tag: pollution
Maryland’s waterways contain high levels of ‘forev...
By Capital News Service | December 1, 2022 | News | 0 |
Environmental lessons for Maryland in wake of COVI...
By Capital News Service | November 18, 2021 | News | 0 |
Proposed Chesapeake Bay funds aim to curb pollutio...
By Capital News Service | November 2, 2021 | News | 0 |
Maryland to phase in manure restrictions without d...
By Len Lazarick | January 3, 2020 | Environment, News | 0 |
Revisiting ‘Beautiful Swimmers’: Pollu...
By Maryland Reporter | August 19, 2015 | Commentary | 2 |
Despite cleanup efforts, Chesapeake Bay remains a pollution challenge
by Capital News Service | February 14, 2023 | News | 0 |
Despite decades of conservation efforts, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation gave the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay a D+ in its recently released 2022 State of the Bay report.
Read MoreMaryland’s waterways contain high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ pollution
by Capital News Service | December 1, 2022 | News | 0 |
A recent report from the Waterkeeper Alliance revealed U.S. states’ pollution levels of certain chemicals in their waterways — and Maryland’s samples revealed high levels of contamination.
Read MoreEnvironmental lessons for Maryland in wake of COVID-19
by Capital News Service | November 18, 2021 | News | 0 |
Maryland is very likely experiencing increased air pollution from the increased incineration of medical waste, according to Megan Latshaw, an associate scientist in Environmental Health and Engineering at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Read MoreProposed Chesapeake Bay funds aim to curb pollution
by Capital News Service | November 2, 2021 | News | 0 |
The reconciliation bill is a broad social spending plan that includes universal pre-K, an expansion of the child tax credit and an expansion of Medicare, among other measures.
Read MoreMaryland to phase in manure restrictions without delay
by Len Lazarick | January 3, 2020 | Environment, News | 0 |
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.
Read MoreRevisiting ‘Beautiful Swimmers’: Pollution, hardened shores threaten crabs as much as overfishing
by Maryland Reporter | August 19, 2015 | Commentary | 2 |
We’re closing on 40 years since William Warner, a New York-New Jersey boy, awakened us Chesapeake natives to the fascinating commerce, ecology and sociology attached to Callinectes sapidus, that beautiful swimmer, the blue crab.
Perhaps it took an outsider to appreciate what us born-heres grew up with.
Warner won a 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his efforts, and put the Chesapeake on the map in a way that should endure as long as crab feasts and crabcakes.
Group promotes immigration reform to save the bay, others blame farm pollution
by Len Lazarick | January 24, 2011 | News | 1 |
In a new report, the Federation for American Immigration Reform is blaming the overpopulation of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and the resulting environmental destruction, on the influx of immigrants coming into the area. But bay advocates scoffed at the notion that growth and immigration are to blame for the area’s environmental problems.
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