A request to delay groundbreaking on the luxury Harbor Point project was made Friday by a city councilman who was forced to postpone a scheduled community meeting to address environmental concerns for the $1.8 billion development to go on top of contained toxic waste site because of the shutdown of the federal government.

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The negotiated plan would allow the drilling of about 1,000 pylons through a protective cap covering toxic chromium on the city’s waterfront at the site.

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As city residents and activists work toward against what they say could be potential environmental problems from the construction of the 27-acre Harbor Point development, state and federal environmental officials and the developer are expected to outline some of building plans at a public meeting Wednesday.

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Stakeholders have until Sept. 10 to weigh in on a controversial report on hydraulic fracturing issued this summer by the Maryland Department of the Environment and Department of Natural Resources.

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Three Inner Harbor restaurants will ask the Board of Public Works on Wednesday for permission to modify their dining piers, more than a year after those restaurants decided the state’s asking price for such approval was too high.

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A Dominion Resources Inc. unit’s application for an air quality permit for a natural-gas compressor station must be evaluated by a Maryland state agency, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled.

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SALISBURY — A few months ago, Matt Holloway expanded the footprint of his hydroponic lettuce greenhouse. Because of a recent shift in approach by state regulators, that required him to take steps to manage the flow of stormwater. He could ...

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Members of the Maryland Green Registry joined with officials of the Maryland Department of the Environment on Tuesday to present the fourth annual leadership awards.

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A Baltimore City Council committee on Tuesday amended the city’s proposed stormwater remediation fee to give port and harbor area industries an 85 percent break.

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Environmental groups say draft pollution permits for CSX Transportation Inc.’s coal export facility in South Baltimore do not adequately protect Baltimore’s harbor.

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