The Maryland Sierra Club, in the wake of the fatal flooding in Ellicott City Memorial Day weekend, are calling for an end to development in the Tiber-Hudson watershed. In a statement released Friday evening, the conservation group blames development upstream ...

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The Sierra Club launched a social media campaign calling on the Maryland Department of the Environment to cut pollution from coal plants, the club announced Thursday. The #StoptheSmog campaign includes two days of nonstop tweeting @MDEnvironment with photos of Maryland ...

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Opponents of a proposed liquid natural gas export facility in southern Maryland are preparing to go to court if a federal agency does not call for a more in-depth environmental assessment of the project.

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An environmental group is disputing the Court of Special Appeals’ ruling last week that Dominion Resources Inc. is permitted to export liquefied natural gas from its Cove Point terminal in Southern Maryland and said Tuesday it is weighing another appeal.

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A Maryland court says Dominion Resources can export natural gas from a terminal at Cove Point in Calvert County, a move the Sierra Club was trying to block.

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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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So there we were -- 15,000 feet up the side of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the climbers sitting side-by-side facing a long line of porters sitting shoulder-to-shoulder. It was strangely tense.

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Lusby’s natural gas import terminal is a victim of the boom in domestic production, and the industry’s political and economic uncertainties are endangering its owner’s efforts to rebound by adding export capabilities to the facility to take advantage of the ...

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WASHINGTON — The Sierra Club says it will block an energy company’s plan to export liquefied natural gas from the booming Marcellus Shale formation. Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. is seeking to export 1 billion cubic feet per day through a ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A coalition of Maryland environmental groups is calling for a four-fold increase in the so-called flush fee for sewage and septic system upgrades. A state task force is considering recommending a doubling of the $30 fee in 2013, ...

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