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It’s That Time Of The Year Again! Get Ready For Southern Maryland’s ‘Buy Local’ Challenge And Celebration
The Bay Net - Maryland
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July 17, 2025
Source: Buy Local Celebration PORT REPUBLIC, Md. — The 2025 Buy Local Challenge (BLC) kicks off this week. Starting July 17, Marylanders can show their support for local farmers and businesses by eating, drinking, and buying local products. The...
Critical Baltimore bridge is crumbling as transportation funding priorities are questioned
WJLA 7 - Washington D.C.
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BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A vital bridge linking Baltimore’s downtown is deteriorating, as Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s administration persists in spending on the Red Line project amid a looming $1.3 billion transportation budget shortfall. The claims from...
Piedmont Reliability Project picks up momentum in Baltimore County
WMAR-2 News - Maryland
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July 17, 2025
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. — Following months of back-and-forth and federal lawsuits surrounding the Piedmont Reliability Project, people in Baltimore County were left wondering, is there anything they can do to stop PSEG, the Public Service Enterprise...
Ask the Experts: Soybeans revolution
RAStech
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July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025 By Matthew Stromberg & Yonathan Zohar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology When seafood connoisseurs turn away from a perfectly prepared salmon filet because it tastes like “pond...
Trump Has Systematically Cut Access to Natural Disaster Prevention Resources
The Assembly - North Carolina
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July 15, 2025
This story is republished through our partnership with NOTUS. The city of Norman, Oklahoma, was prepared to build an automatic flood warning system this year—the same kind of early warning system that Kerr County, Texas, could have used to help...
Former Baltimore teacher found guilty on child sex abuse charges, could face 55 years in prison
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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A former Baltimore City school teacher was found guilty on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, according to the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office. Mustafa Pitts, a former teacher at Reach! Partnership School, faces a sentence of up to 55...
A week after mass overdose, Baltimore groups implore city to fund services in Penn North
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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July 16, 2025
Baltimore leaders, first responders and news crews swarmed the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues last week following a mass overdose that left more than two dozen people hospitalized. But the attention on the area vanished quickly,...
Piedmont powerline project requests access to survey more Maryland properties
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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The developers behind the controversial Piedmont powerline project requested access to additional properties in Maryland Tuesday after they were allowed to survey nearly 90 locations in June. The Piedmont Reliability Project would build 70 miles...
Maryland Innovation Lab launches cohort focused on decarbonization
The Daily Record - Maryland
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July 15, 2025
Key Takeaways: Maryland launches new Innovation Lab cohort focused on climate goals Startups to pitch decarbonization solutions in Baltimore Program partners include BGE, Pompeian and Capital Logistics Initiative aims to attract investment and...
WEATHER ALERT: Severe weather in parts of Maryland
FOX45 - Maryland
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(UPDATE AT 9:09 PM) - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Baltimore and Carroll County in MD until 9:30 pm. Tracking another round of storms late Wednesday. Temps will be hotter this afternoon, helping to fuel the environment for thunderstorms. Dew...
EPA Seeks to Assert Authority Over Maryland’s Offshore Wind Project Appeals
The Maritime Executive
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attempted to assert its authority "at the eleventh hour" over the final approvals for Maryland’s first offshore wind project. The deadline was on July 14 for appeals on the final approval for the...
DC, Maryland & Virginia feeling the surge as US hits record number of flash flood warnings in 2025
WUSA 9 - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
If your phone keeps buzzing with flash flood alerts, you’re not just imagining it. WASHINGTON — If it feels like flash flood warnings are popping up on your phone more often, you're not imagining it. The National Weather Service has issued more...
EPA says it found errors with permit for Maryland wind energy project
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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In a letter, the Environmental Protection Agency said it identified errors in the Maryland Department of the Environment's decision to issue a permit to U.S. Wind, the Maryland-based developer of an offshore wind project. In December 2024, U.S....
Watershed Education and Stewardship Grants Awarded in St. Mary’s County and Baltimore City
Southern Maryland News Net
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July 15, 2025
Charles County Public School third grade students participate in outdoor field investigations at Piscataway National Park, in Accokeek, Maryland, programming funded by a previous year’s US EPA Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grant approved through...
Study Shows EPA's Unintended Effect on Voluntary Climate Disclosures by Public Firms
Newswise
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July 15, 2025
Newswise — Public firms facing inspections or enforcement actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disclose significantly less information about their environmental risks and performance, finds a new study by Assistant Professor of...
Storms Trigger Bacteria Surges, Crab Die-Off In Maryland Waters
The Bay Net - Maryland
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July 15, 2025
CALIFORNIA, Md. – Elevated bacteria levels following summer rainstorms — along with a separate blue crab die-off in the lower Potomac River — are raising health and environmental concerns in Maryland, according to watershed groups and state...
Bird Flu Is Killing Wildlife, and Experts Fear the Ecological Toll
Yahoo News
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25,669 Northern Gannets in Canada. 134 harbor and gray seals along the coast of Maine. 21 California Condors in the western U.S. These are just a tiny fraction of the wild victims of a strain of high pathogenicity avian influenza—what we...
Salve Regina Professor Awed By NOAA’s Work on the Ocean
ecoRI News - Rhode Island
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July 18, 2025
While many of his colleagues administered final exams and graded term papers last semester, Jameson Chace was at sea. The Salve Regina University professor and chair of the school’s Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies Department had been...
Trump accuses impeachment leader Schiff of ‘mortgage fraud’ over Maryland home he keeps while repping California
The Independent
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July 15, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
200+ swimmers sign up for Baltimore’s Harbor Splash. Will rain postpone again?
Capital Gazette - Maryland
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July 14, 2025
More than 200 participants signed up for the rescheduled Harbor Splash, a swimming event in Baltimore's harbor on Saturday, but a rainy forecast could lead to another postponement. Originally Published: July 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM EDT