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Hard facts about development's harm
baltimoresun.comTwo new reports deliver sobering reminders of how development is slowly strangling our rivers and streams. Just out is the Potomac Conservancy's 2nd annual report on the state of the "nation's river," which finds the biggest threat coming from pollution... -
Speak out on oysters, chicken stuff
baltimoresun.comMarylanders have an opportunity this week to be heard on two different but related issues of critical importance to the Chesapeake Bay.The federal and state governments are seeking feedback from the public on whether to introduce an Asian oyster into... -
Drill, Virginia, drill?
baltimoresun.comThe debate about offshore oil exploration has landed nearly in Maryland's backyard. The Department of Interior today took the first step towards allowing drilling in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast - just a little more than 50 miles from... -
Bay cleanup - even more daunting than we thought?
baltimoresun.comAfter being unable to agree on setting a new target date for the long-running Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, state and federal officials have decided to take six months to come up with a set of short-term goals. At the same time, they said they hope... -
Bay beat predictions, had "average" bad summer
baltimoresun.comThe Chesapeake Bay weathered this past summer better than scientists had predicted, it seems. The dead zone was "average" rather than awful, according to Chesapeake EcoCheck, a Web report card on bay health maintained by federal and University of Maryland... -
Officials vow new bay effort
State and federal officials pledged yesterday to redouble their efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay but declined to set a new target date for when they plan to do it. Instead, the officials - including the governors of Maryland and Virginia - agreed...Tags: Dietary Supplements, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Government, Stephen Johnson, Pollution
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Federal court upholds Michigan ballast water law
AP Environmental WriterA federal appeals court Friday upheld a Michigan law designed to prevent oceangoing freight ships from bringing invasive species to the Great Lakes in their ballast water. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected a challenge to the...Tags: Laws, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Government, Court Administration, Environmental Politics
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Great Neck sewage plant plan advances
christina.hernandez@newsday.comThe Great Neck Water Pollution Control District yesterday signed an agreement to combine operations with Great Neck village and build a sewage treatment facility at a cost of $68 million. Village officials have not yet signed the agreement and plan to...Tags: Hempstead (Hempstead, New York), Great Neck, Long Island Sound, Environmental Pollution, Pollution
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Officials won't set new target date to clean up Chesapeake Bay
By a Baltimore Sun reporterState and federal officials pledged today to redouble their efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay but declined to set a new target date for when they planned to do it. Instead, the officials – including the governors of Maryland and Virginia – agreed to...Tags: Dietary Supplements, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Government, Timothy M. Kaine, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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Mich. governor signs water technologies agreement
Michigan has become the first U.S. state to sign a water technologies partnership agreement with Israel. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the agreement Monday during her seven-day trade trip to the Mideast. She and Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai say...Tags: Ehud Olmert, Energy Saving, Executive Branch, Environmental Pollution, Government
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EU calls for international rules to improve safety of ship scrapping
Associated Press WriterBRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ The dismantling of hundreds of old ships in South Asia is polluting coastal areas, threatening ecosystems and subjecting workers to unsafe, deplorable conditions, a top EU official said Wednesday. EU Environment Commissioner...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, European Union, Ecosystems, Disasters, Conservation
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Babylon installing flood of storm water filters
jennifer.smith@newsday.comIn what Suffolk officials call Long Island's most extensive municipal effort to reduce storm water pollution, the Village of Babylon plans to install filters at every village outfall pipe that leads to the Great South Bay. "We're doing 93 of them," Mayor...Tags: Bodies of Water, Meteorological Disasters, Disasters, Rivers, Great South Bay
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