"Healing Baltimore's Harbor"
"In a special report, The Baltimore Sun chronicles a movement under way to purge the trash, bacteria and pollution that have long infected the city's watery heart."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 02/02/2011
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Meetings Set for Getting Public Feedback on Solar Sites
The federal government has released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for identifying and evaluating the best areas on public lands for building utility-scale solar plants. A 90-day public comment period ends March 17, 2011, preceded by 14 meetings in 6 Western states and Washington, D.C.
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15 Firms Sign up for New Md. Law Establishing 'Benefit' Corporations
"It was not enough for Pennye Jones-Napier to sell eco-friendly chew toys or fair-trade collars at her Takoma Park pet store, the Big Bad Woof. She wanted to make sure her customers could hold her accountable to the sustainable practices she preached."
Source: Wash Post, 01/25/2011
"MSHA Outlines Key Problems That Led to Mine Disaster"
Federal investigators Wednesday outlined allegations of safety violations as the likely factors that combined to produce the huge explosion that killed 29 miners on April 5 at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine.
Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/20/2011
AAAS Meeting: Source for Cutting-Edge Enviro News
Topics at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb. 17-21, 2011 in Washington, D.C., include climate change, energy, health, oceans, national security, nanotechnology, GMOs, religion, space weather and many more.
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"Spruce Mine Could Have Reduced Impacts, Report Says"
"Arch Coal Inc. could have cut the stream damage from its proposed Spruce Mine in half without significantly increasing coal-production costs, according to a previously secret engineering report prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/18/2011
"MD Threatens Lawsuits Over Coal Ash Pollution"
"The Maryland Department of the Environment has formally threatened to sue the operator of three coal-fired power plants in the state for allegedly polluting ground and surface water with coal ash it's dumping in two unlined landfills."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/07/2011
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