Tag: pollution
No grass, no crabs: Maryland community grapples with Gunpowder River mud pollution
Beneath an overcast October sky, Theaux Le Gardeur and two researchers buzzed around the Gunpowder River in a motorboat bearing the name “Gunpowder Riverkeeper.”
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Chesapeake Bay is cleaner but will miss 2025 pollution targets, Maryland lawmakers say
Chesapeake Bay is cleaner than it used to be but is falling short of 2025 targets for reducing pollution, federal and state officials and most of Maryland’s congressional delegation said on Wednesday.
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EPA announces historic funding for Chesapeake Bay restoration programs
By BRENNAN STEWART Capital News Service ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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Eagle Harbor activists hope federal aid will help boost environmental restoration
Air, water and soil contamination have also made their way across the Patuxent River, touching not only Charles County but also Eagle Harbor, the 70-person town where he served as mayor from 2011 to 2021.
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Maryland military facilities probing groundwater for ‘forever chemicals’
Maryland military facilities are in the early stages of remedial investigations into “forever chemicals” that jeopardize drinking water supplies in groundwater after a September report by the Department of Defense identified hundreds of military sites across the country as at risk for such chemicals.
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Despite cleanup efforts, Chesapeake Bay remains a pollution challenge
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.
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Maryland’s waterways contain high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ pollution
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.
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Environmental lessons for Maryland in wake of COVID-19
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.
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Proposed Chesapeake Bay funds aim to curb pollution
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.
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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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Revisiting ‘Beautiful Swimmers’: Pollution, hardened shores threaten crabs as much as overfishing
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
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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