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Climate & environment

Thousands of dead fish flood the Baltimore harbor, again
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.
Thousands of dead menhaden float in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday.
Marc Elrich promised to shutter the county’s waste incinerator. This is his last chance.
Despite extending the contract for the Dickerson incinerator through 2031, the county executive is pushing for alternatives before his term ends.
Despite extending the contract for the Dickerson incinerator through 2031, the county executive is pushing for alternatives before his term ends.
Thunderstorms bring threat of flash flooding, potentially strong winds to region
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.
Cars driving along Compromise Street in Annapolis on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, after a downpour.
The crown jewel of American farm science is in Beltsville. Will Trump close it forever?
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 Beltsville Agricultural Research Center covers thousands of acres of largely farmland in the middle of the Washington DC suburbs
What Marylanders should know as copperhead snakes become more active in fall
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.
The Eastern copperhead is a venomous pit viper, with a very distinctive triangular-shaped head.
Excavators, trenches and bonfires: Montgomery County’s bamboo wars
Montgomery County has been battling invasive running bamboo for decades, from backyards and public parks to the County Council.
Mike Honig’s neighborhood association in North Potomac has gathered funds and organized proximate homeowners to battle an ever expanding growth of invasive running bamboo– “Bamboo grows together so tightly that nothing else can survive,” said Honig.
Millions in county grant dollars in peril as feds cool on climate science
The money at risk — federal grants for climate change initiatives awarded to Montgomery County under the Biden administration — is potentially on the chopping block.
Montgomery County Climate Change Officer Sarah Kogel-Smucker fears the loss of at least $40 million in grants would make it harder to protect the county’s environment.
Lawmakers join hundreds in outcry over Baltimore County landfill’s ‘trash juice’ proposal
Days Cove Rubble Landfill in White Marsh is seeking a permit to discharge 25,000 gallons of leachate a day into the Gunpowder River.
Del. Ryan Nawrocki gives his testimony during a public hearing on Tuesday evening over a potential permit for the Days Cove Rubble Landfill to release leachate into the Gunpowder River.
Is offshore wind doomed in Maryland?
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.
A Baltimore County landfill wants to dump more ‘trash juice’ into the Gunpowder
A White Marsh landfill has applied for a permit to dump a toxic liquid called leachate into the Bird River, a tributary of the Upper Gunpowder River.
The Big Gunpowder Falls River can be seen beyond Days Cove Rubble Landfill in White Marsh.
Review of contested transmission line will stretch to 2027, past grid operator deadline
This marks a significant delay to the timeline requested by PSEG, which had proposed a final decision by the end of March 2026.
The region’s grid operator, PJM Interconnection, said that if new transmission lines aren’t built, the region could suffer rolling brownouts and blackouts as soon as the summer of 2027.
When fall foliage is expected to peak in Maryland
Colorful leaves will be coming to Maryland, soon.
Fall foliage nears peak around the water’s edge at Loch Raven Reservoir.
Prospects dim for Dr. Ben Carson’s proposed solar farm
The future for Dr. Ben Carson’s proposed solar farm in Baltimore County doesn’t look bright.
Ben Carson and his wife, Lacena, entered into a contract in 2023 to turn their $2.4 million home in UpperCo into a 33-acre solar farm. Homeowners in the surrounding community have protested.
A ‘windscreen’ to shield South Baltimore from coal dust? Both CSX and the community say no.
New requirements to protect South Baltimore residents from an export terminal’s coal dust have left both environmentalists and the facility operator unhappy.
Loaded coal cars are wait to be offloaded at CSX’s Curtis Bay Coal Pier on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
What season is it anyway?
You’re not alone in feeling confused by what to do for fashion, food and fun as Maryland and its unpredictable weather enters false fall.
Storms forecast to move into region Saturday, overnight after warm, muggy start to the weekend
Saturday started warm and muggy, but that late-summer humidity is expected to act as fuel for storms that will develop Saturday afternoon and evening amid a plethora of events in Baltimore.
Cars drive on West Nursery Road near BWI during a thunderstorm in the Baltimore, Md. region on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
Surveyors for controversial Maryland power line project denied U.S. Marshals help
A judge ruled that surveyors for a controversial Maryland power line project will not be accompanied by U.S. Marshals while on landowners’ properties, according to the developer.
An existing set of transmission lines cuts through the landscape near the start of the proposed route of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project in northern Baltimore County.
Just how loud are those Locust Point ships? We visited some other noisy spots to find out.
The plight of Locust Point residents who must live with constant noise from two military cargo ships got us wondering: How does the racket there compare to other noisy spots?
A pair of huge Navy ships, the USNS Charlton, left, and the USNS Pomeroy, docked near residential homes at North Locust Point on June 5. Since then, residents say that the ships have never turned off the engines -- meaning that they are always making tons of noise, shining bright lights into people's windows, and making the air all smelly with diesel.
Fall-like, sunny weather across Maryland for Labor Day and into this week
Outstanding, fall-like weather will continue in Maryland for Labor Day and through the middle of the week.
Carl Barnhill of Baltimore, walks near Moorish Tower at the Druid Hill Park walking loop in Baltimore, Monday, June 2, 2025.
Maryland’s governor, legislature get so-so grades on environmental scorecards
Two and a half years into Gov. Wes Moore's term, the nonprofit Maryland League of Conservation Voters says his administration has fallen short on its climate and environmental justice commitments and notably backflipped on progressive policies.
Gov. Wes Moore takes questions from reporters on Maryland’s sweeping audit of police-custody deaths during a news conference at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
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