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Dorchesters Valley Proteins resumes operations amid wastewater agreement.

Maryland regulators have ordered a shutdown of a problem-plagued Eastern Shore chicken rendering plant after a tip from an environmental group led them to discover a batch of new pollution

Two environmental groups are challenging new stormwater management requirements Maryland regulators have issued for Baltimore city and Baltimore County, arguing that they fall short of what’s needed to curb worsening

With New Jersey's announcement that it will rejoin a multistate compact to limit carbon emissions, 2018 could be a banner year for cap and trade in the states -- even if the idea is dead in Washington.

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In Virginia, the state environmental agency this spring created an environmental justice office, tasking it with developing a plan to address systemic inequities in the sector.

The impact of a gas station-convenience store on traffic at the busy U.S. 23-Orange Road intersection has Orange Township trustees uncertain about a Sheetz proposed at the sites southwest corner.

A simple arithmetic error, among other lapses, led Maryland to underestimate the amount of methane leaking from its landfills, an environmentalist group found. The analysis, conducted by the Environmental Integrity Project, found that 51,500 tons of the greenhouse gas had escaped into the atmosphere, four times the 12,500 tons estimated by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). T

In Brief Maryland’s Legislature recently considered, but did not have time to pass, SB0737 the Comprehensive Conservation Finance Act after it was developed collaboratively with both conservation nonprofit and private capital groups. The bill tweaks a number of regulations concerning conservation programs to crowd-in private capital for a greater quantity and diversity of conservation projects for the Chesapeake Bay. More broadly, it spurs discussion about incentives for land aggregation veh...

Orange Township searching for administrator after Westerville official turns down offer Dean Narciso, The Columbus Dispatch © Dean Narciso Orange Township Hall which serves 27,000 residents in southern Delaware County Orange Township officials gave no explanation during a meeting this week for why they changed course on the selection made earlier this month of a Westerville official to be their new township administrator. As it turns out, Joseph Fourqurean declined the j...