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Regulating farms with certainty
The concept behind the proposed Maryland Agriculture Certainty Program is sound. Farmers would voluntarily agree to meet relatively high standards for pollution runoff and hire third-party inspectors to verify the results. In return, they would be...
Tags: Annapolis, Perdue Farms, Environmental Issues, Small Businesses, Water Pollution
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Chesapeake regaining "resilience," EPA reports
The Chesapeake Bay is showing increased resilience in the face of natural and man-made abuses, though it's still seriously impaired, according to the latest official report on the regional restoration effort. The annual "Bay Barometer" released...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Tropical Storms, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution
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Non-profits still rely on sending you freebies: Does it work?
WDBJ7 Anchor/ReporterIt's what some would call smart marketing. Give a little and hopefully get something back. Non-profits like the American Heart Association, Lung Association and The Salvation Army send out millions of customized mailing labels each year. Virginia...Tags: American Heart Association, The Salvation Army, March of Dimes Foundation
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Chesapeake's new threat — lawyers
Restoring the Chesapeake Bay to better health, or at least slowing the pace of pollution into it, is neither easy nor inexpensive. Yet it's worth pursuing and ultimately is a smart investment, so important is the estuary's future to Maryland's economy and...
Tags: Exelon Corp., Frederick County (Maryland), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Crime, Law and Justice, Business Enterprises
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Tractorcade protests rural development curbs
Farmers and others upset over state-imposed restrictions on septic-based rural development staged a "tractorcade" Tuesday past the State House in Annapolis. The protest comes on the day the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee is...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Martin O'Malley, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Judges, Politics
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Annapolis scientist wins weather award for work with 'smart' bay buoys
Part data collectors, part tour guides — with a dash of personality for good measure — the 10 yellow navigational markers that make up the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System have been a hit with the public and weather forecasters since...Tags: Alternative Energy, Annapolis, Woodrow Wilson, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Wildlife
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The menhaden mystery
At a historic meeting in Baltimore recently, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), the fisheries management body representing 15 states along the Eastern Seaboard, resolved to cap the harvest of menhaden at 20 percent less than the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Reedville, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Omega Protein Corporation
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Nutrient-trading programs can reduce bay pollution
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation appreciates the concern about nutrient trading expressed by Dr. Robert S. Lawrence of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ("Nutrient trading a dirty deal for the bay, Dec. 9). We would like to present some...Tags: Water, Environmental Issues, Rivers, Bodies of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Fisheries panel to rule on menhaden
From Virginia, New Jersey and points in between, busloads of fishermen are coming to Baltimore for a showdown Friday over how much to curb the industrial-scale harvest of a small, oily fish that figures prominently in the seafood industry, though no one...Tags: Environmental Issues, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Minority Groups, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Panel votes to cut menhaden harvest by 20 percent
In a move hailed by conservationists, East Coast regulators ordered Friday a 20 percent reduction in the commercial catch of Atlantic menhaden, despite warnings that the cutback would cost some fishermen their jobs and may affect crabbers in the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Elections
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LEED certification: L.J. Kellam Construction receives coveted Platinum award for Eastern Shore Virginia project
L.J. Kellam Construction, LLC is the first builder on Virginia’s Eastern Shore to achieve the Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification by the United States Green Building Council. The Platinum rating is the highest...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Annapolis, Environmental Issues, Arts and Culture, Atlantic Ocean
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Chesapeake Bay improving, green group says
The Chesapeake Bay's health appears to be slowly rebounding, but still has a long way to go to be considered fully recovered, according to the region's largest environmental group. The Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation rated the estuary's...
Tags: Annapolis, Environmental Issues, Chesapeake Bay, Conservation, Environmental Pollution
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