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Small Business Owners, Farmers, Elected Officials Support EPA Proposal to...

Baltimore, MD – Today, coming off the biggest step forward for clean water in more than a decade, Environment Maryland stood with community leaders to release a letter to the Environmental Protection...

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Court of Appeals Case Reveals Maryland's Agricultural Industry Secrecy and...

(Annapolis, MD) – A coalition of nonprofit organizations working to reduce pollution and increase transparency from the agricultural industry said they support arguments before the Maryland Court of...

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Catching the Wind Report

Over 1.5 million acres off the Atlantic coast have been designated for offshore wind power development, enough to produce over 16,000 megawatts of electricity and power more than five million homes,...

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Solar Capacity in Maryland Grows

Baltimore, MD – Today, Environment Maryland Research & Policy Center released Lighting the Way, showing strong solar growth across the nation including an 33.33%increase in Maryland in 2013. The...

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Maryland's Summer Fun Index

Every summer, Marylanders flock to our waterways to seek relief from the summer heat, and enjoy our favorite aquatic activities. Whether we rent boats on the Pocomoke River, go swimming in Assateague,...

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Maryland Attorney General Defends EPA Action on Climate

On Monday evening, Attorney General Douglas Gansler joined 13 additional states and the District of Columbia to stand up for new EPA regulations on global warming pollution. The attorneys general...

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Senate rejects Keystone XL Pipeline

"We applaud today’s vote all those senators who stood up against the oil industry and its allies, and did the right thing for our communities and our children’s future." -- Anna Aurilio, Environment...

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Environment Maryland delivers 8millionth comment to clean up power plants

Washington, DC--As the public comment period on the Clean Power Plan closes today, Environment Maryland joined colleagues from around the country to deliver a symbolic “8 millionth” comment supporting...

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Report: Small or large, all fracking companies break rules

From Fortune 500 companies, to mom-and-pop operators, to firms like Chevron who tout their clean records, virtually all drilling and fracking companies are prone to infractions of environmental rules,...

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Baltimore among region’s solar leaders

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90 percent of Marylanders live in counties hit by weather disasters

Annapolis, Md. -- Ninety percent of Marylanders live in counties recently hit by weather disasters, according to a new interactive weather map created by Environment Maryland using federal government...

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90 percent of Marylanders live in counties hit by weather disasters

Annapolis, Md. -- Ninety percent of Marylanders live in counties recently hit by weather disasters, according to a new interactive weather map created by Environment Maryland using federal government...

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90 percent of Marylanders live in counties hit by weather disasters

Annapolis, Md. -- Ninety percent of Marylanders live in counties recently hit by weather disasters, according to a new interactive weather map created by Environment Maryland using federal government...

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Clean water wins as Congress rejects budget rider

Due to overwhelming public support, the Clean Water Rule has now withstood every attack that polluters could muster in Congress - the Barrasso bill, the CRA measure, and now an attempted budget rider....

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As Baltimore develops a low-income solar program, residents could see more...

Baltimore, MD – Solar panels provide pollution free energy that delivers far reaching benefits to the environment, the electric grid and all ratepayers, said a new report released today by Environment...

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546 Leaders Call for Stronger Northeast Climate Pact

546 organizations, businesses, health professionals, lawmakers and community leaders from the Northeast, called on Governor Larry Hogan and other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic governors to strengthen the...

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Ben Grumbles Tours Baltimore Energy Efficiency Project

Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles joined climate protection advocates to learn about energy efficiency at the Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training (MCVET) today.

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"Sheer Reckless Folly"

Today, President Trump signed an executive order rolling back climate progress. The executive order instructs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rewrite the Clean Power Plan, the single...

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Governor Hogan could double the benefits of reducing power plant pollution

As the federal government attempts to roll back programs that limit air pollution, seen most recently when yesterday Trump signed an executive order to reverse many Obama-era climate efforts such as...

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Baltimore’s health at risk with 143 dirty air days in 2015

Air pollution remains a major threat to our health, according to a new report from Environment Maryland Research & Policy Center, Our Health at Risk: Why Are Millions of Americans Still Breathing...

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