Environment

by Fern ShenJun 9, 2025

Advocates as well as City Council members worry that, with five years left on the BRESCO contract, the Scott administration is moving too slowly to end trash incineration in Baltimore.

May 24, 2025

Chesapeake crab population drops to second lowest level ever tallied

Scientists are searching for answers to the decline in the Bay’s most valuable catch and an important indicator of the estuary’s health.

Special SeriesMay 13, 2025

Baltimore region’s water quality is worse than year before and in overall decline since 2013, watchdog group finds

The annual report by Blue Water Baltimore is out, and the news is “disappointing” for Baltimore Harbor and local waterways.

Special SeriesApr 16, 2025

Activist is happy to get a grant, but lingering “terrible odor” from Back River sewage plant leaves her wary

After Baltimore settles pollution lawsuits, Maryland officials report progress at the two treatment plants and announce community projects that are part of the consent decree.

Apr 8, 2025

A long-sought victory for community groups: Lawmakers end Maryland’s subsidy for incinerators

Until it got a powerful new ally in Annapolis, a decade-long effort to end state support for trash-burning facilities, like South Baltimore’s BRESCO plant, always flamed out.

Mar 4, 2025

Along Baltimore’s Middle Branch, a wetland restoration underway

Project led by the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership aims to revive a degraded urban riverfront and lift up the often neglected neighborhoods nearby.

Jan 6, 2025

Maryland shuts down under a heavy snowstorm

Oct 28, 2024

“You call it dredged material. I call it toxic waste”

Sep 9, 2024

Community irate over latest coal dust storm at CSX Curtis Bay facility

Aug 9, 2024

Baltimore medical waste incinerator still pollutes, burning trash from as far away as Florida

Jul 15, 2024

Environmentalists to Maryland: Build stormwater runoff controls into Key Bridge replacement

Jul 5, 2024

A city-state partnership seeks to rescue Baltimore’s beautiful but beleaguered Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park

Jun 24, 2024

Pressed about jumping into the harbor, Mayor Scott and others admit it’s still unsafe and illegal outside of organized events

Jun 18, 2024

This year’s water quality report card tells the grim truth about the overall state of Baltimore Harbor

May 29, 2024

South Baltimore residents file complaint against city, saying BRESCO pollution threatens their civil rights

May 21, 2024

Fleischmann’s Vinegar to pay $1.3 million to settle Jones Falls pollution suit

Apr 29, 2024

Key Bridge salvage raises concerns about stirring toxic sludge in Baltimore Harbor

Apr 22, 2024

Environmental losses this year in Annapolis include bill to end Baltimore incinerator subsidy

Mar 29, 2024

Advocates call on Moore, Ferguson and Jones to support an end to incineration subsidy

Feb 16, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: City to enter into $50 million contract for private management of Back River biosolids

Jan 19, 2024

DPW shuts down media coverage of sewer consent decree meeting

Jan 18, 2024

Sewage overflows and basement backups persist in Baltimore despite federal consent decree

Dec 23, 2023

Restoration of Baltimore’s Stony Run is failing again, residents and scientists say

Dec 12, 2023

Gas pipe replacement contradicts Maryland climate goals, will cause “skyrocketing rates,” report says