The one constant in life is change, it seems. Here at The Sun, that means I'm moving to a new blog. Today marks the debut of "B'more Green," devoted to showcasing some of the efforts of Marylanders to live more gently on the land.
This marks farewell for Bay & [...]
About nine months ago in this space, I said goodbye. I was embarking on a journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan, where I would spend the year studying economic approaches to environmental sustainability. I promised I would come back, though, and continue to report on the health of the [...]
You may not fix every problem by throwing money at it, but it sure can help. Maryland is getting $1.73 million in economic stimulus funds to spend on reducing harmful diesel emissions from buses, trucks, ships and construction equipment like the crane pictured above at the Port of Baltimore.
Diesel exhaust [...]
While the press coverage of the annual Chesapeake Bay summit this week focused on President Obama promising a stronger federal role in the cleanup effort, and state officials pledging to accelerate their pollution reductions, Howard Ernst isn't buying any of it.
The associate professor of political science at the Naval Academy' [...]
There was a lot of talk at Mount Vernon on Tuesday about "a new day" dawning in the long struggle to restore Chesapeake Bay, with President Obama declaring the bay a national treasure and states agreeing to short-term pollution reduction plans, aka "milestones." Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, head [...]
The roundup last winter by Virginia watermen of derelict crab pots found there are plenty of them lurking in the Chesapeake Bay - and they keep catching and killing crabs, and other aquatic life.
Virginia paid out-of-work crabbers $300 a day plus fuel to scour the bay bottom for the "ghost [...]
State, federal and local officials gather at Mount Vernon in Virginia today to chart a new, reputedly more accountable course for jump-starting the long-running effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Gov. Martin O'Malley says he'll lay out a plan for accelerating pollution reductions by 2.5 times the current pace. He [...]
An effort to slow the loss of forest and farmland in Wicomico County fell short yesterday as the Eastern Shore county's council narrowly defeated a measure that would have tightened rural development rules.
By a 4-3 vote, the council rejected a hotly debated proposal to delete the county's so-called "clustering" rule, [...]
For all the locavores out there, there's a new farmers' market in town. Every Tuesday from now until October, local farmers will be selling fresh fruits, vegetables, artisan cheese, eggs and more in the park in front of the University of Maryland Medical Center, along the Paca Street sidewalk.
The medical [...]
If you're a little tired of overhyped TV game and talent shows, here's a contest with some real green behind it. A pair of Hanover middle school students has made it to the finals of a national contest aimed at encouraging American youth to make environmental change in their communities.
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An international group of environmentalth health experts is warning against the growing practice of spraying the pesticide DDT in homes in malaria-plagued African and Asian countries.
Marla Cone, writing for Environmental Health News, reports that the group of 15 scientists, led by a University of California epidemiologist, urges that DDT [...]
Are electricity rates in Maryland too low to promote conservation among consumers? That's what a local economist suggests. In an interview published in Maryland Commons, an online journal of news and commentary, Professor Tim Brennan at University of Maryland, Baltimore County argues that letting electricity rates rise' [...]
Ever wonder where your tapwater comes from On Sunday, you can see it, up close and raw. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., people can visit the three drinking-water reservoirs Baltimore city maintains to supply the region and learn how its safety is maintained.
Walk out on Loch Raven Dam, like [...]
Despites some improvements over the past decade, the air most Marylanders breathe still can make them sick and even cause premature death.
That's the upshot of a new report by the American Lung Association, which after analyzing air quality readings from 2005 through 2007 finds that Baltimore city ranks 15th among' [...]
Wildlife refuges and parks in Maryland are getting a healthy does of the economic stimulus spending being sprinkled around the country by the federal government.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to spend $280 million nationwide to build visitor centers, fix infrastructure and and boost the work done at national [...]
Green is in, especially this month, and Marylanders who want to learn how to make their homes more energy efficient and environmentally friendly can do so in Annapolis on Saturday.
Take a tour of green homes and buildings in and around the state's capital, organized by the Historic Annapolis Foundation. Geothermal, solar,' [...]
What the Chesapeake Bay cleanup needs is more money, and a more aggressive federal government to hold the states accountable for curbing the pollution fouling the nation's largest estuary.
That's what state officials, scientists and environmental advocates said yesterday in meeting with members of Maryland's congressional delegation in Washington, my colleague Paul West' [...]
Here's a chance to savor one of the bay's lost treats - American shad. On Saturday, head to Vienna in Dorchester County to join in the 14th annual Nanticoke River Shad Festival. They'll be serving up "planked" portions of the tasty fish, to be eaten while enjoying live music,' [...]
Federal biologists checking the upper Potomac River have found that abnormalities in bass there are even more widespread than they'd earlier reported. But they're no nearer to understanding what's causing it.
At least 82 percent of male smallmouth bass and 23 percent of the largemouth bass had immature female' [...]
A few weeks back, I wrote about some Marylanders plowing through the icy Bering Sea off Alaska to study how it's changing. Now there's another local who's exploring faraway waters, though he's picked a warmer spot - the Red Sea.
Glenn Page, former conservation director for the National Aquarium here in [...]
Happy Earth Day! On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans thronged the streets and public places across the country to demonstrate their concern about the degradation of the environment around them. Their protest was fueled by widespread publicity about the Cuyahoga River in Ohio catching fire and by [...]
The Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound provide scenic and thematic bookends for a troubling examination of what ails our nation's waterways in "Poisoned Waters," a two-hour documentary airing Tuesday night on PBS' "Frontline." Pardon the plug, but it really is TV worth watching.
Veteran journalist Hedrick Smith takes [...]
Despite our lousy economic conditions, Marylanders overwhelmingly care about the bay and want to see it cleaned up - by regulation, if need be, and with more government spending, even if it means raising their taxes.
Those are some of the highlights of a new public opinion poll released Friday by the [...]
Among the bills that didn't make it in the General Assembly session that ended this week was one that would have re-regulated energy generation in Maryland. While its failure was a major disappointment to consumer advocates, it was not mourned by Gary Skulnik, president of Clean Currents.
His Rockville-based company' [...]
After decades of ambiguity and controversy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson thinks it may be time for Congress to review and strengthen federal wetlands protections.
Speaking last week in Washington at a preview of a documentary about pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, Jackson said because of Supreme Court decisions [...]
Some Maryland scientists have been trying to get to the bottom, figuratively and literally, of what's going on in the Bering Sea off Alaska.
Along with an international team of more than 30 other scientists, Lee Cooper and Jacqueline Grebmeier, research professors at the University of Maryland's Chesapeake [...]
With spring here, many folks may feel like getting out and about. If you want a taste of quaint, quiet rural village life in a spectacular waterfront setting, I recommend visiting Whitehaven.
My wife and I spent last weekend there, on the banks of the Wicomico River. Saturday was sunny, but a bit [...]
Speaking of lists, Fort Detrick just made the Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List.
Better known as the Superfund list, it targets the Army base in Frederick for federal attention in dealing with stubborn ground-water contamination there that has tainted the wells of nearby homes. Five residences' [...]
So Baltimore came in a solid 8th on Forbes.com's annual list of the 15th most livable cities. Whaddyaknow?
My colleague Jamie Smith Hopkins has already taken note of this over on her blog, The Real Estate Wonk.
But I couldn't help noticing how the biz mag's Web site' [...]
Incentives to live greener and more sustainably seem to be popping up like spring flowers all around. In his column today in The Baltimore Sun, my colleague Jay Hancock, runs through an impressive list of grants, tax credits and other ways to shrink your carbon footprint by acquiring energy efficient appliances or [...]
The state Senate passed a slightly modified version of the O'Malley administration's growth "indicators" bill today - after yanking the lone tooth the House had inserted into it.
The bill (SB276/HB295) approved by a vote of 45-2 requires counties and municipalities to report every year on various indicators of where and how' [...]
Planting trees just got a little cheaper. How's this for a deal? Get $25 off on the purchase of a native tree, and help save the bay -- and lower your energy bill -- at the same time.
The state of Maryland is committed to planting 1 million trees by 2011, and [...]
Saturday's looking to be a sunny day, so if you're looking for something to get you out of the house, why not do a little spring cleaning in your neigbhorhood stream?
Groups all across Maryland have organized stream and park cleanups this weekend. There's Project Clean Stream, in which volunteers' [...]
This is stock-taking season, it seems, for the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. You can be forgiven if your head is spinning now with grades and scores, and wondering what it all means.
A couple weeks ago, we had the "Bay Barometer" produced by the Environmental Protection Agency's bay program. It rated the' [...]
Climate bills are blooming like cherry blossoms in Washington. Earlier this week, two senior Democrats unveiled their long-awaited plan for capping climate-warming emissions from burning fossil fuels. The bill put in by California Rep. Henry Waxman and Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey is more ambitious in some respects than the "cap and trade" scheme being [...]
Environment Maryland released a report today arguing that it isn't just Allegany County where residents are fighting developments that conflict with their counties' long-range growth plans.
The report, "Contrary to Plan," describes eight development disputes on the Eastern Shore and in Howard and Prince George's counties, from housing projects in rural areas [...]
Crabbing season began in Maryland today, and watermen and biologists are both hoping there are more crabs to be found in Chesapeake Bay. They won't know if things are really looking up, though, for another couple weeks. That's when the results of a winter-long survey of the bay's [...]
The House of Delegates today passed a growth-management bill that would spur local governments to corral suburban sprawl - or risk having development projects blocked by the state.
By a 95 to 42 vote, delegates approved an amended O'Malley administration measure, HB295, that would require localities to concentrate 80 percent of new development' [...]
It's probably no big surprise to those who live along the Severn River, but the first-ever report card on the 14-mile waterway that runs through the state capital found it's in poor health.
The Severn scored 45 out of 100 possible points for conditions on the river and its feeder creeks [...]
The House of Delegates gave preliminary approval tonight to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, turning aside a "killer" amendment offered by the chamber's Republican leader.
The bill, which would commit the state to reduce its climate-warming emissions of carbon dioxide 25 percent by 2020, is now poised for a final House vote. Given [...]
Critics of the economic stimulus bill that the Obama administration pushed through Congress complained it was riddled with wasteful spending. Now some environmental activists are pointing out a waste of another sort -- some of the "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects meant to put people to work could simply wash away as climate change raises sea levels.
A group [...]
It seems Asian oysters are nearly -- but not quite -- off the menu for restoring Chesapeake Bay's bivalves.
The natural resources secretaries of Maryland and Virginia conferred by phone today with the commander of the Norfolk District of the Army Corps of Engineers to see if they could come up [...]
A surprising development in Virginia may presage the end - at least for now - of the debate over whether Asian oysters have any place in the Chesapeake Bay.
On Tuesday, the Virginia Seafood Council abruptly withdrew its request to raise 1.1 million Asian oysters in 11 locations around the bay. [...]
In what could be a major shift in federal policy, the Environmental Protection Agency declared today it would be taking a much closer look at the harm done to streams by mountaintop mining for coal.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that her agency had sent letters voicing "considerable concern" about the environmental impacts [...]
It's spring, and with the slowly warming temperatures, key moves are under way in Annapolis and Washington to combat climate change by regulating greenhouse gases.
In Annapolis, the House Economic Matters Committee gave its blessing yesterday to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, which would commit Maryland to reducing climate-warming emissions 25 percent from 2006 levels by [...]
Bucking a national trend downward, Maryland businesses, factories and power plants released more toxic pollutants into the environment in 2007 than they did the year before, new data show.
According to the Toxics Release Inventory maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, all disposals and releases of hazardous pollutants in 2007 [...]
Mayor Sheila Dixon has announced that Baltimore will join "Earth Hour," a nationwide event meant to highlight concerns about climate change.
The event, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, asks individuals, businesses and governments to turn off their lights for one hour to make a statement about the issue and the [...]
While the Chesapeake's oysters and crabs may be hurting still, according to the EPA's "Bay Barometer," Maryland apparently saw an uptick in visiting waterfowl this past winter.
Biologists for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources counted 498,200 Canada geese in January, up [...]
Another report card to take note of: a comprehensive new look at the state of the nation's birds finds that several major groupings of our feathered friends are in trouble, particularly seabirds, coastal shorebirds and those that frequent grasslands and open prairies. (The bird pictured above, photographed by Greg [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency tempered its once habitually optimistic updates on the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, finding that the ecosystem remains severely degraded despite all that's been done or said over the past 25 years. Even so, there are those who think the picture is cloudier and darker than even [...]
Environmental awareness has spread to all sectors of society - why should retirees and retirement communities be any different?
Erickson, the Catonsville-based national network of retirement communities, recently announced a "green campaign" to improve the environmental sustainability of its places. It's expanding recycling, enhancing energy conservation and using less toxic cleaning [...]
Maryland has announced it will curb the catch of female horseshoe crabs in state waters this year - short of the moratorium that some wanted but one that biologists hope may provide an indirect boost for the troubled red knot.
The red knot is a globe-trotting shorebird that stops off on the [...]
Environmental activists continue their quest to stop the bulldozers clearing a path for the Intercounty Connector, the east-west highway across the Washington suburbs that has been fought over for years. They'll probably need the luck of the Irish on this one, though.
Green lobbyists took advantage of this' [...]
What if scientists warned that you risked obliteration by an erupting volcano overlooking your community? Would you flee, or stick it out?
German film maker Werner Herzog investigated such a circumstance in his 1977 film "La Soufriere," about the seemingly imminent destruction of a town in Guadeloupe at the base of a rumbling volcano. [...]
People living in metropolitan areas with the worst ozone pollution, aka smog, face at least a 30 percent greater chance of dying from respiratory illnesses than residents of the least polluted cities, a new study has found.
The study, published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, is' [...]
NEWS FLASH - John Frece, a longtime advocate for "smart growth" (and former Baltimore Sun reporter) has been tapped to run the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Smart Growth.
Frece, associate director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, confirmed he starts on [...]
Who says Maryland isn't America in miniature?
About 4,000 gallons of coal ash slurry from a pulp and paper mill in Allegany County leaked into the North Branch of the Potomac River on Sunday night, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment.
As spills go, the leak at Luke was' [...]
The owner of a home built illegally on an island in the Magothy River can keep it, an Anne Arundel County judge has ruled.
The Annapolis Capital reports that Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. upheld a decision by the county's board of appeals saying that Daryl Wagner does not [...]
How "public" are public records if all identifying information is stripped out?
An Anne Arundel County judge has ruled that the Maryland Department of Agriculture must release reports from farmers on how they manage their animals' waste and any chemical fertilizer they use. But the judge ordered that state officials redact all' [...]
Ever wonder what happens to all that rock salt that gets sprinkled on roads and highways, walks and driveways when the snow falls? It winds up in area streams, ponds and lakes, where research indicates it's altering the development of frogs and other aquatic life.
Salt levels in streams tend to spike after a [...]
Virginia's seafood industry is seeking permission to grow 1.1 million Asian oysters over the next year, even as Maryland, Virginia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrestle over whether the imported bivalves should have a role in restoring the Chesapeake Bay's depleted oyster population.
The Virginia Seafood Council asked the state to let 11 growers [...]
The protest must go on, even if congressional leaders stole some of the activists' symbolic thunder.
Climate activists apparently plan to go ahead with a "civil act of civil disobedience" Monday outside a power plant near Capitol Hill, even though congressional leaders declared they want the facility to stop burning coal in a bid to' [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency sees signs that "smart growth" is catching on nationwide in the tea leaves of building trends in the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas.
The agency tallied a surge in residential building permits in the urban cores of more than half the big metro areas from [...]
The growing prospect that there may be federal action on climate change apparently has spawned a wave of lobbyists in Washington. The Center for Public Integrity reports that in the past year, as climate legislation finally came to a vote on Capitol Hill, more than 770 companies and [...]
Maryland's Senate gave preliminary approval today to a bill calling for a 25 percent reduction in climate-warming pollution in the state by 2020.
Sen. Paul G. Pinsky, a co-sponsor along with Gov. Martin O'Malley, accepted two minor amendments to the bill, SB278. One would require gender, geographical and racial balance on' [...]
It turns out I was slightly out of date in describing how Asian oysters being tested in the Chesapeake Bay are rendered sterile. I wrote in my blog post "Hold your oysters...." that the imported bivalves were "chemically sterilized." Stan Allen, head of the aquaculture genetics and breeding center at [...]
Despite Maryland's forest conservation law, the state continues to lose upwards of 3,000 acres of woodlands a year, most of it to development, a new task force has reported. That's bad news for the bay, since trees are among our best pollution controls.
In a report released last week, the task [...]
There'll be no decision, at least for the next few weeks, on whether to allow Asian oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. That's the word from Col. Dionysios Anninos, commander of the Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Army photo of him at right.)
Legislation that would commit Maryland to reducing climate-warming pollution 25 percent by 2020 is expected to be voted on by the state Senate this week.
The "Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act" sponsored by Prince George's Sen. Paul G. Pinsky and Gov. Martin O'Malley cleared the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee late last week [...]
If you can't wait for the Academy Awards presentation, tune in to MPT Saturday evening for a noteworthy documentary, "Sprawl: A Tipping Point," on the choices Marylanders face in dealing with growth while trying to maintain their quality of life.
MPT's Jeff Salkin takes viewers on a 30-minute ramble' [...]
I spent a long afternoon in Annapolis earlier this week listening to folks debate how much growth should be guided by plans, and who should decide what the public ought to know about the growth occurring around them.
As I reported in The Baltimore Sun, the House Environmental Matters [...]
Getting tired of looking at those four walls? Then get out of the house and get to Irvine Nature Center to learn how to "green" your home. Not paint it, literally, but make it more eco-friendly and sustainable.
The Owings Mills-based nature center is launching a speakers' series called "Greening Your' [...]
Lawmakers in Annapolis got an earful about oysters yesterday, but still missed a few voices.
Maryland has been trying without much success for the past two decades to rebuild oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay after they became infested by a pair of diseases in the late 1980s. [...]
Climate change may be occurring faster than predicted just two years ago, a top climate scientist warned last week, because greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing in the atmosphere more rapidly than in the 1990s.
Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of [...]
A decision on whether Asian oysters could be approved for cultivation in the Chesapeake Bay could be coming very soon - if it hasn't already been made.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that natural resources secretaries from Maryland and Virginia were to meet "sometime in the' [...]
The Auto Show is in town this weekend, and Ford brought a shiny new hybrid to show off. In throwing the struggling auto industry a lifeline last month, members of Congress pressed the car makers to start selling more fuel-efficient vehicles. The new Fusion hybrid was already [...]
The actions taken by Maryland and Virginia last fall to curtail the harvest of female blue crabs were suggested, it seems, by this state's top conservation official - 85 years ago.
Paul McCardell, ace librarian here at The Baltimore Sun, brought me a photocopy of a May 25, 1924, story quoting the' [...]
Google Earth has been around for several years now, helping computer users explore places familiar and foreign with the aid of detailed maps and satellite photography. I particularly enjoyed zeroing in on my house in Catonsville.
But until recently, you could only explore Earth's land masses in detail. ' [...]
The state's plan to deactivate, or "freeze," unused commercial crab licenses provoked cries of anger and anguish last night from a mostly grey-haired crowd in Annapolis.
A public hearing on proposed crabbing regulations for this year focused almost exclusively on a proposal to prevent those commercial crab license holders' [...]
Disappointed that Gov. Martin O'Malley didn't propose more ambitious reforms of Maryland's flawed Smart Growth program, activists hope to put some teeth in the governor's legislation that would require local officials to track various indicators of growth.
O'Malley announced recently that he plans to introduce five bills based on recommendations made by' [...]
Baltimore's sustainability plan takes its first step toward approval this week. It's to be presented to the city's planning commission tomorrow (Feb. 5).
The plan was drafted with the lofty goal of "meeting the environmental, social, and economic needs of Baltimore without compromising the ability of future generations to meet those needs." Among other things,' [...]
I'm old enough to have grown up reading Pogo, a wry comic strip about a possum of that name and a menagerie of other critters populating Georgia's Okeefenokee Swamp. One of Pogo's famous utterances, carried in a 1971 Earth Day poster, was: "Yep, son, we have met the enemy and he is us!"
Another' [...]
As if Maryland's watermen need more tsuris, now comes news that the feds have busted a big rockfish poaching ring that could curtail or even end their ability to make a living harvesting the state fish.
My colleague Candus Thomson, The Baltimore Sun's outdoors writer, broke the story over [...]
Did Maryland's crab harvest actually increase last year in the face of seemingly severe catch restrictions? Or did the state's watermen just inflate their catch reports to make it look that way?
That's the question at the heart of my story today in The Baltimore Sun. The Department of Natural' [...]
Environmental advocates from all over Maryland met yesterday evening in Annapolis to lobby their lawmakers for state action to fight global warming and a bevy of other green bills coming up, but their loudest cheers were for the arrival in Washington of an avowedly green-leaning national Obama administration.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William [...]
It didn't take long for the Obama administration to start changing federal environmental policy. The White House is expected to announce today that it is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider letting California and other states, including Maryland, set stricter auto emissions rules to reduce climate-warming pollution.
California, which has a' [...]
... not on her recent legal troubles, but on her efforts to make the city a cleaner and greener place. On Friday, Jan. 30, Mayor Sheila Dixon will talk about her sustainability initiative with the Baltimore District Council of the Urban Land Institute, a Washingon-based nonprofit promoting urban redevelopment.
Also speaking will [...]
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which is suing the federal government over its failure to do more to clean up the bay, may file a lawsuit in Maryland targeting pollution it believes the state government is not doing enough to curb.
William C. Baker, president of the Annapolis-based environmental [...]
Gov. Martin O'Malley announced today he will renew the push for a climate-change bill that commits the state to reducing greenhouse gases 25 percent by 2020.
With labor, manufacturers and environmentalists all on board this time, O'Malley is expected to cosponsor a compromise version of the bill he backed last year that passed the [...]
A green ethic has crept into boating, it seems, just as it has into owning and driving motor vehicles. The Baltimore Boat Show this year boasts a "Green Boating Zone" along with the usual seminars on catching rockfish and electronic navigation.
The zone features "eco-friendly" boats and products, including hybrid [...]
The debate over wind farms on western Maryland's mountain ridges continues Thursday.
The state Public Service Commission is taking public comments that day in Frostburg on an application by U.S. Wind Force to erect up to 29 turbines on Dans Mountain in Allegany County. Collectively, they would generate nearly 70 megawatts of power.
The' [...]
While the chicken farmers didn't cluck, there's a lot of squealing from other quarters about the Environmental Protection Agency's rule exempting all but the largest livestock farms from having to report hazardous air emissions from animal waste.
As I reported in The Baltimore Sun when EPA announced its reporting exemption a' [...]
Environmentalists, who spent much of the past eight years shunned by - or shunning - the Bush administration, are celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama in a big way.
Tonight, the president-elect and his running mate and their wives will be feted at the "2009 Green Inaugural Ball," with former Vice President [...]
Environmentalists are urging politicians to green up the wish lists of "shovel-ready" projects they're giving the incoming Obama administration for inclusion in its plan to jump-start the slumping economy by boosting public works spending.
As reported today in The Baltimore Sun, mayors across the land have toted up more than 15,000 projects, estimated to cost $96 billion, that they say could create' [...]
Eighteen years ago, amid stark warnings that sprawl threatened the health of the Chesapeake Bay, Gov. William Donald Schaefer pushed for new state power to zone certain areas of the state for growth and to protect others. His proposal foundered amid a storm of opposition [...]
This may be the year when Marylanders learn whether the development plans their leaders must appove every six years are worth the paper they're printed on.
As I reported in The Baltimore Sun today, Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to seek legislation spelling out that counties and municipalities must [...]
Listen up, all you city dwellers who care about recycling, green jobs and transit. The city's "sustainability" plan is available for review and comment online.
The plan focuses on seven basic "themes," including cleanliness, pollution prevention, resource conservation, environmental education and awareness. Specifics are still to come in some cases, but it calls for' [...]
