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Climate & environment reporter, @BaltimoreBanner | Previously western North Dakota for @inforum [email protected]
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Trump attorneys told a federal judge yesterday that the administration plans to revoke the permit for the only approved wind farm off Maryland's coast – another major blow to a local offshore wind industry that was already on its heels:.
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The Trump administration has taken aggressive steps to curtail the offshore wind industry nationally.
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RT @BaltimoreBanner: Trump administration plans to revoke permit for Maryland offshore wind farm
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The Trump administration has taken aggressive steps to curtail the offshore wind industry nationally.
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RT @propublica: New: Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied f….
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Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say,...
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RT @Orledge_J: Even using an oil industry lobbyist's estimate, ND Mineral Owners lost around $322 million in withheld royalties to oil comp….
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Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation.
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RT @Tim_Prudente: With homicides falling in Baltimore by unprecedented margins, Commissioner Richard Worley is either very lucky or very go….
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Life in Baltimore always means a reversal of fortune could be right around the corner
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RT @pwoodreporter: BGE is warning of a potential of mass outages this afternoon. There's an issue with a power plant, but neither BGE no….
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A mass power outage in Central Maryland was avoided on Monday, following a transmission failure at a local Baltimore Gas and Electric Company substation.
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RT @LeeOSanderlin: Baltimore has seen a drastic reduction in homicides and shootings over the last three years.
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There have been 68 homicides and 164 nonfatal shootings in Baltimore the first six months of the year, according to police.
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RT @Tim_Prudente: We know Maryland's famous steamed crabs often don't come from Maryland. But where do they come from? And how do they get….
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Within a generation, the Maryland crab business shifted from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the interstate.
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Maryland had drawn down less than $1 million of $62 million it was awarded through EPA's "Solar for All" when the Trump admin terminated the program this week . The program was meant to lower utility bills for low-income families by building rooftop solar
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The Trump administration’s decision this week to ax a Biden-era rooftop solar program will cost Maryland more than $60 million intended to build the local workforce and lower electricity costs for...
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RT @BaltimoreBanner: On Tilghman Island, USDA announces $6M to stem blue catfish invasion of Chesapeake
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Tilghman Island Seafood does its part to cull the blue catfish, but the region lost control of the population years ago.
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RT @AlecMacGillis: (By contrast, Yale pays New Haven $23 million a year on a portfolio valued at $4.2 billion.)
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Federal cuts and a local push to get more money for Baltimore are squeezing the city’s most powerful entity.
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RT @AlecMacGillis: Johns Hopkins owns 150 acres in Baltimore, valued at $2.6 billion. If it had to pay taxes, it'd owe $60 million/year. B….
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RT @justin_fenton: New from @adampwillis: 1,500 homes across Maryland may have been wrongly certified by a shoddy inspector as free of lead….
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An inspection had illegally cleared their home of risks of toxic lead paint, residents learned in the letters.
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NEW: Maryland will issue its permit today for the CSX coal piers in Curtis Bay, the first since the facility's 2021 explosion. The permit requires CSX to build a "windscreen" to shield the neighborhood from dust. Neighborhood activists say it's not enough:.
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Maryland environmental regulators to impose new restrictions on a coal export terminal in South Baltimore, blocking CSX dust from polluting neighborhoods.
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RT @Invisibae: “Cities are becoming a challenge to live in,” he said. “So this is like: Experience the suffering of the world we’ve created….
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The unsanctioned footrace loops along a particularly scorched stretch of North Baltimore.
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RT @BaltimoreBanner: In Baltimore’s hottest new race, ‘experience the suffering of the world we’ve created’
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The unsanctioned footrace loops along a particularly scorched stretch of North Baltimore.
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A new Baltimore marathon subjects runners to the worst the city has to offer: traffic, direct sun & the heat of a July afternoon. "Experience the suffering of the world we’ve created" said its director, who presided over the carnage while sipping cold beer.
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The unsanctioned footrace loops along a particularly scorched stretch of North Baltimore.
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In the Chesapeake Bay, blue catfish have all but taken over, multiplying prolifically and eating just about everything. One Eastern Shore scientist is on a mission to weed out the invasive river monsters. He hopes his annual fishing tournament can help:.
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One scientist hopes his Eastern Shore fishing derby boosts the fish fight.
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RT @emilyopilo: The Baltimore City Council has a busy afternoon ahead. At 1, they'll host reps from local utilities including BGE and Vicin….
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The 19th-century pipes underground in Baltimore City are bursting into flames, and the city and BGE are pointing fingers instead of finding a solution.
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RT @justin_fenton: ICYMI: He’a never cut open and examined a body; he doesn’t even have a medical degree. But this Towson University psycho….
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Research by a psychology professor from Towson University shed new light on how the work of medical examiners suffers from bias.
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