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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! Yup, it’s a Plane

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Nathan Sterner, Katherine Gorman - Jun. 29 (News Analysis) - It's a NASA air quality research mission!

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East Baltimore bus facility stirs neighbors' ire

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - May. 29 (News) - Like many Baltimoreans, Freida Morton has a charcoal grill on the small patio in back of her East Baltimore rowhouse. But the 69-year-old says she doesn't have any plans for a Memorial Day cookout there because of the racket and fumes from her neighbor across the narrow alley, a busy Maryland Transit Administration bus yard, with 160-some diesel buses departing, arriving and idling nearly around the clock.

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O'Malley to sign waste-energy bill

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - May. 17 (News) - Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Tuesday he'll sign a bill opposed by environmentalists that would grant financial incentives to facilities that produce power by burning trash.

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Baltimore City Tries To Stop Sewage Spill

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WJZ-TV - May. 17 (News) - More than 10 thousand gallons of raw sewage have poured into Herring Run and workers are still trying to stop the spill.

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Scientists question bay cleanup tracking

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Kim Walker - May. 04 (News) - The long-running Chesapeake Bay cleanup remains plagued by uneven efforts to track and verify pollution reductions, particularly from farmland, according to an independent review.

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Chesapeake Bay health declines a bit last year

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Meredith Cohn - Apr. 27 (News) - Polluted rain water draining into the Chesapeake Bay caused the health of the state’s largest estuary to decline in 2010, according to an independent scientific analysis released Wednesday by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

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Environmentalists urge O’Malley to veto waste-to-energy bill

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ann E. Marimow - Apr. 26 (News) - Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who touts his environmental bona fides, has enthusiastically championed wind power, solar power and electric cars, all in recent months. Now he is facing a much tougher call on an issue that boils down to this: Just how green is garbage?

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O’Malley presses ahead with plans to limit new septic systems in Md.

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ann E. Marimow - Apr. 18 (News) - One week after the end of the legislative session, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) showed Monday that he’s not backing down from a proposal to curb the construction of new septic systems that contribute to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Study: Bay cleanup plan would be costly for Maryland

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Ryan Sharrow - Apr. 18 (News) - A study released Monday says Maryland’s and the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay under new federal regulations would result in a significant hit to the state’s economy.

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Environmental Lobby Counts Its Losses In General Assembly, Looks Toward Next Year

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Joel McCord - Apr. 13 (News) - The session started with high hopes for restrictions on septic systems, a moratorium on drilling for natural gas in Western Maryland and a boost to developers of wind power off Maryland’s coast. All those initiatives died.

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Five years later, Jacksonville still grapples with gas spill

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Times - By Arthur Hirsch - Apr. 06 (News) - Whatever the pressures of his city law practice, Robert Lazzaro could count on finding refuge at the end of the day at his home in Jacksonville, where the back deck offered quiet, a hot tub and a woodland view. That changed five years ago after an Exxon station less than a mile away leaked about 26,000 gallons of regular unleaded gasoline into the groundwater, contaminating dozens of wells and casting a shadow of fear over the small community in northern Baltimore County.

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Laurie Schwartz’s Push To Clean The Harbor

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Jewish Times - Feb. 04 (News) - Laurie Schwartz is the executive director of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, which has launched Harbor 2020 to clean up and restore the Inner Harbor. Tomorrow, Feb. 5, the organization will hold its first “State of the Harbor”conference, at the Legg Mason Building, 100 Light St., to provide an in-depth look at the issues.

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Healing Baltimore's harbor

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Jan. 30 (News) - Ray Bahr ought to be taking it easy. He's 75 and retired after a successful career as a cardiologist. Instead, the Canton resident finds himself prowling alleys in East Baltimore on the lookout for illegally dumped trash and goading city officials to clean up mini-landfills in back of abandoned houses.

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