The National Aquarium in Baltimore announced it has named its first-ever chief conservation officer.

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The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Queenstown, announced that it has received a pledge of $250,000 from the Grayce B. Kerr Fund to be put toward the planned Eastern Shore Conservation Center in Easton.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A watershed-protection group wants the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board to overturn a Potomac River pollution permit for a federal complex in Shepherdstown and instead impose Maryland’s tougher sampling requirements. Potomac Riverkeeper is challenging the discharge permit ...

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The Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund has awarded the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection a $19.8 million grant to construct and carry out stormwater management projects in the Anacostia River and Rock Creek watersheds.

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Constellation Energy and its parent company, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., announced a combined $1.8 million donation to the Maryland Science Center for the creation of a new, state-of-the-art energy exhibit. Expected to open in late 2013, the multimedia, interactive exhibit will ...

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Heavy rains and a hot summer harmed the Chesapeake Bay’s health last year, earning it the second worst grade on a yearly report card issued Tuesday by the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science. The center gave the bay ...

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The Army Corps of Engineers is hosting the first of three meetings to discuss a master plan to restore Chesapeake Bay oysters. The corps, which holds the first meeting Tuesday night in Annapolis, says the plan is the first comprehensive ...

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Steven Schindler has been named chief marketing officer at the National Aquarium. In this role, Schindler will oversee all of the National Aquarium’s marketing initiatives for both the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. venues. Schindler will champion the National Aquarium’s mission ...

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Imagine if one of our major automakers proposed a model line of gas-wasting, air-fouling vehicles that used 60-year-old technology. Unthinkable, of course; but it’s little different than what homebuilders and developers propose when they plan most new rural subdivisions. Their ...

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WASHINGTON — A painstaking conservation effort to remove old patches and repair weak spots in a 714-year-old copy of the Magna Carta has revealed that the full text of that English declaration of human rights remains intact even though some ...

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