Climate & environment

Baltimore Ravens fans headed to the game Sunday should prepare for wet weather as a nor’easter is forecast to bring wind and heavy rain.

Hardly anyone who’s visited the Baltimore harbor in recent weeks has come away feeling that the urban waterway is well.

Jen Kaye and her family have sold Schooner Woodwind to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in the rarefied field of commercial sailing.

A powerful nor’easter will whip up weather along the East Coast and could bring wind and heavy rain to Maryland this weekend.

The guilty plea comes around two months after Maryland environmental regulators voided hundreds of lead-free certificates issued by Green Environmental in Baltimore and around the state.

Environmental groups say this has been the longest and most widespread pistachio tide in recent memory.

Nearly five months after floodwaters ravaged Westernport, a small, rural Allegany County town, the yearslong work of repairing and rebuilding paused, briefly, for a celebration.

The Trump administration’s cuts would end funding for a dozen Maryland projects, including by BGE, the University of Maryland, and firms in Baltimore, Columbia and Anne Arundel County.

The Conowingo Dam would power Maryland homes and businesses under a new deal that requires Constellation Energy to spend millions to limit pollution.

Blue Water Baltimore, a water quality watchdog in the city, explained the colorful change and rotten-egg smell were part of a “turnover event” in the harbor.

Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay area could see some minor coastal flooding with the possibility of some moderate flooding in the bay area caused by the hurricanes.

In July, Trinity Sterile got a waiver from the EPA to keep releasing the same amount of toxic chemical ethylene oxide until at least 2028.

The 2024 state law, named the WARMTH Act, calls on Baltimore Gas and Electric Company and Washington Gas Light Company to develop pilot programs that would incorporate geothermal energy — collected underground from the Earth’s natural heat — in low-and-moderate income communities.

The city entered its sewage consent decree in 2002 and now wants to punt its completion to 2046.

Rain showers and thunderstorms are likely to continue today and into the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

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.

Despite extending the contract for the Dickerson incinerator through 2031, the county executive is pushing for alternatives before his term ends.

Scattered thunderstorms Tuesday evening are bringing the threat of flash flooding and damaging winds across the region, with the warning that parts of Anne Arundel County could see up to half a foot of water during high tide.

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.

State officials are reminding Marylanders that eastern copperheads, one of two venomous snakes in the state, will become more active as the weather gets cooler.