Adam Willis reports on climate and the environment across Maryland for The Baltimore Banner. He previously covered Baltimore City Hall for The Banner. He has also worked as a historical researcher in Washington, D.C., as a freelance reporter for national magazines and reported on state government, energy and the environment for the Fargo Forum in North Dakota.
Under the Maryland program, part of the California-led Clean Cars II emissions standards, nearly half of new cars that roll off dealership lots need to be electric by the fall of 2026 or auto manufacturers could face fines.
Environmentalists and Middle River residents are suing the developers behind a sprawling project at a World War II-era manufacturing plant near Martin State Airport.
As the administration of President Donald Trump pursues a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the agency’s environmental justice division already has faced cuts — and things could get worse.
Environmentalists have pushed for years to no avail to end the state’s subsidy for trash incinerators, which burn garbage to produce electricity and steam.
A Howard County resident who recently traveled abroad tested positive for the highly contagious virus measles, the Maryland Department of Health said Sunday.
Months after a 36-year-old trash collector died on the job, state inspectors found that Baltimore's Department of Public Works routinely exposed employees to dangerous heat and humidity.
The recently circumspect Chesapeake Bay Foundation warned in a statement that Trump’s moves could “spell disaster” and create “an existential crisis” for the decades-old cleanup effort.
After a years-long campaign by environmental advocates, top Maryland lawmakers want to cut off a program that has paid tens of millions of dollars in green energy subsidies to incinerators.
A Baltimore Banner review found the city has spent tens of millions of dollars since 2022 on three different firms hired to bolster the city’s workforce, and millions more have been committed.
The settlement, announced by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office Tuesday, comes less than a month after he filed a complaint before federal utility regulators calling on PJM Interconnection to impose a lower price cap on its next energy auction.