Though regulators say the incident isn’t the result of any single pollution event, the aquatic annihilation is another reminder of the challenges facing the harbor and the broader Chesapeake Bay.
The Trump administration plans to close the Maryland's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, or BARC, just outside Washington. The USDA wants to move the farm research “closer to the people,” but proponents of the lab worry about disruption to ongoing research and development of the rural land.
The Baltimore-based US Wind project off Ocean City is Maryland’s only offshore wind farm close to construction, but federal tax breaks and courtroom battles may decide its fate.
New requirements to protect South Baltimore residents from an export terminal’s coal dust have left both environmentalists and the facility operator unhappy.
The Trump administration’s decision this week to ax a Biden-era rooftop solar program will cost Maryland more than $60 million intended to build the local workforce and lower electricity costs for thousands of households.
Maryland environmental regulators to impose new restrictions on a coal export terminal in South Baltimore, blocking CSX dust from polluting neighborhoods.
In a letter sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Maryland says the state won’t make the correction requested and doesn’t plan to reissue a permit.
A second attempt at an organized Baltimore harbor swim this summer was called off due to persistent rains, and organizers don’t plan on trying again this summer.