The Growing Green Design Competition targets vacant lots to improve the safety and aesthetic look of surrounding areas and to increase community engagement.
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Read More »June 13, 2014 Comments Off on Baltimore’s neighborhood revitalization targets vacant lots
The Growing Green Design Competition targets vacant lots to improve the safety and aesthetic look of surrounding areas and to increase community engagement.
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Read More »June 6, 2014 Comments Off on Hoyer: Republicans lack votes in Congress to block EPA rule
Democrats in Congress will be able to keep Republicans from overturning the Obama administration’s rules to lower greenhouse-gas emissions, said second-ranking House Democrat Steny Hoyer.
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Read More »May 12, 2014 Comments Off on Civic Works gets training grant from EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that Baltimore’s Civic Works, a nonprofit, AmeriCorps job-training program, is getting a $200,000 grant to train 72 Baltimore residents for careers in environmental cleanup work.
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Read More »May 7, 2014 Comments Off on EPA pledges to solve dispute over investigations
The Environmental Protection Agency assured Congress on Wednesday it will resolve a sensational dispute with its inspector general over allegations that President Barack Obama's political staff inside the agency interfered with investigations.
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Read More »April 29, 2014 Comments Off on Challenge to Chesapeake cleanup tests EPA power
Maryland is joining three other jurisdictions in supporting the Obama administration's plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay watershed, seeking to counter an election-year legal challenge by farmers and 21 attorneys general that could shape future U.S. environmental policy.
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Read More »April 15, 2014 Comments Off on Court upholds EPA emission standards
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's emission standards for hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
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Read More »January 2, 2014 Comments Off on Editorial: A chemical giant reborn
The announcement right before the holidays that Worthington Industries is closing its steel-processing plant in Essex is a reminder of the long, grinding attrition of Maryland’s traditional strengths in manufacturing and heavy industry.
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Read More »December 25, 2013 Comments Off on Wood heat more popular despite environmental concerns
WASHINGTON — Bill Traver has sold wood stoves to customers in Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia from his small shop in Hedgesville, W. Va., for nearly three decades, but over the past few years, he’s seen an increase in sales. ...
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Read More »December 10, 2013 Comments Off on Court looks at EPA rule on cross-state pollution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday it could breathe new life into a federal rule requiring states to reduce power plant pollution from the South and Midwest that fouls the air in the eastern U.S. Several justices suggested during ...
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Read More »December 9, 2013 Comments Off on It’s an ill wind that blows Maryland no good
Maryland joined seven other states in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast in petitioning the federal government Monday to require nine upwind states to cut down air pollution emissions. The petition is aimed at Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, ...
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