Billions of dollars have been spent on recovery from Superstorm Sandy, but a little-noticed portion of that effort is quietly helping fish that need to migrate.

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Five million oysters in the Patapsco River by 2020. That’s the goal to be announced Thursday by The Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership, a collaboration between the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. “Oysters once ...

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The water quality in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor last year was given a grade of C-minus by local environmentalists hired to gauge the viability of one of the city’s greatest assets, its waterfront.

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Maryland environmental officials are warning the public to avoid waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Patapsco River near the site of a sewage main break. Shellfish harvesting has also been closed at the mouth of the Patapsco and nearby ...

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Rubble from a demolished dam on the Patapsco River has moved to its new home on the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, and it will soon be joined by a boatload of new neighbors — 4 million baby oysters. For ...

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NEW YORK — Targa Resources Partners LP said Monday it has purchased two crude storage facilities for $127 million. Targa Resources, a natural gas company based in Houston, said it acquired the Targa Sound Terminal on the Hylebos Waterway in ...

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Baltimore is one of seven pilot cities nationwide participating in a new federal urban waters initiative that doesn’t promise any new funding but hopes to increase cooperation among federal and local agencies. Eleven federal agencies led by the U.S. Environmental ...

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