"Very unhealthy" pollution levels recorded in D.C. after July 4th fireworks
A "purple" air quality alert was issued for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas, on Sunday, meaning pollution reached levels considered "very unhealthy."
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A "purple" air quality alert was issued for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas, on Sunday, meaning pollution reached levels considered "very unhealthy."
The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released by scientists: a C-plus.
Gov. Wes Moore has signed an executive order to require all Maryland state agencies to submit a plan to help address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers are predicting this summer's dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay will be smaller than the long-term average taken between 1985 and 2021, according to environmental staff.
The system with the biggest fan base may be the anthropomorphized Trash Wheels at the mouths of four Baltimore watersheds.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Clagett Farm is showing farmers how they can help restore the bay through regenerative agriculture.
The Baltimore department began working with the Maryland Department of the Environment after it sent a letter to the City in August 2021 alleging violations were occurring that needed to be corrected.
Mayor Brandon Scott on Monday vowed that Baltimore City would help get things under control at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant after the state took over operations at the city-owned and operated facility.
The group says it's the first time an analysis of the concerns has been conducted publicly at military sites across the nation's largest estuary.
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, air pollution dropped markedly in Maryland, according to a recent report from the University of Maryland and the state's Department of the Environment.
The attorneys general of Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware and Virginia have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of not requiring Pennsylvania and New York to develop sufficient plans to reduce Chesapeake Bay pollution.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the health of the nation's largest estuary is continuing to improve. But it says Pennsylvania still isn't doing enough to reduce the amount of pollution that's flowing into the bay from the state.
There's a code orange air quality alert in the Baltimore area Monday.
A Code Orange Air Quality Alert was issued for the Baltimore metro area Monday.
Mr. Trash Wheel broke the record between April 1 and April 30, 2017 after removing 63.3 U.S. tons of debris from the mouth of the Jones Falls River.
A "silent miscarriage" happens when a fetus hasn't formed or has died, but the placenta and embryonic tissue remain.
The bacteria has killed several dogs across the south, and officials in Maryland warn the blue-green algae is here too.
The Baltimore City Council is giving a plastic bag ban in the city another go.
The owner of a coal plant on a river north of Maryland may have to pay a $1 million fine over pollution leaking into the river and flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.
After three years of decline, climate change causing carbon dioxide emissions rose sharply in the US last year according to new research.
Wildlife conservationists in Alabama are expressing outrage after the body of an endangered type of sea turtle washed ashore with a beach chair wrapped around its neck.
Millions of Americans apply personal care products every morning before heading to work or school. But these products don't stick to our bodies permanently.
More than 95% of the world's population is breathing unhealthy air and the poorest nations are the hardest hit, a new report has found.
While many areas in the U.S. try to crack down on the littering aspect of not cleaning up after your dog, studies are also finding that dog poop is becoming a major environmental hazard too.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to relax some limits it set on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and taint downwind areas with air pollution from power plants.
