Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court that challenge an Environmental Protection Agency rule designed to reduce the amount of power plant air pollutants that drift across state lines may be the first in a flurry of high court environmental cases that could have a major impact on federal policy and businesses.

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Gov. Martin O’Malley is betting that setting more ambitious goals for reducing air pollution will force development of a thriving environmental technology industry in Maryland.

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ANNAPOLIS — States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are working to have a new cleanup agreement ready by October with clearer goals and greater flexibility and transparency. This would be the fourth Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement in 30 years intended ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Washington, D.C., and states within the Chesapeake Bay watershed are making progress to reduce pollution flowing into the hobbled estuary but none is on track to meet cleanup commitments set this year, an analysis by environmental groups ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Sen. Mark R. Warner says he’s introduced legislation that would better track the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. The Virginia Democrat says the legislation would require the Office of Management and Budget to compare costs and the ...

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WASHINGTON — A new study finds climate change could cut stream flows in the Potomac River basin, a major source of drinking water in the Washington region. The study found by 2040 climate change could cut stream flows 35 percent. ...

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BILLINGS, Mont. — Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure. The ...

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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is looking for communities to help raise baby oysters for the 2013 season through the Marylanders Grow Oysters program, now in its sixth year. Volunteers last year raised more than 2 million new oysters ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A volunteer committee is beginning a statewide assessment of Maryland’s public trails. The Department of Natural Resources Trails Committee holds its first meeting Thursday in Annapolis. The 15-member panel includes representatives from trail user groups around the state. ...

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FREDERICK — The rhetoric is running hot ahead of a Maryland Department of the Environment hearing on a proposed waste-to-energy incinerator near Frederick. The hearing Wednesday night concerns plans by the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority for smokestack emissions, water ...

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