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Recreation and Outdoors calendar
Canoe/kayak Today, May 19: USA Canoe/Kayak Whitewater Slalom Team Trials and Deep Creek Open, Adventure Sports Center International, Deep Creek Lake, Garrett County. Admission: free. Children's Adventure Series and Kids Day at The Races, 11 a.m.-2 p.m....Tags: Sailing, Baltimore County, Garrett County, Somerset County (Maryland), Annapolis
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'Green' gas plans offer climate-friendly home heating
Guest blogger“Would you like to buy a carbon offset with your purchase today?” That’s a question you hear more often when you rent a car or buy groceries at MOM’S Organic Markets. Now, you also have that option when you buy natural gas to...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Worcester County, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Environmental Issues, Prices
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Maryland to limit female crab catch
Maryland moved Monday to reduce the commercial harvest of female blue crabs in the aftermath of a survey finding that the Chesapeake Bay's crab population hit a five-year low last winter. The Department of Natural Resources announced that it was...
Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Chesapeake Bay, Aquaculture
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Group to consider how to get more information about pesticide use in Md.
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comIn July, members of a work group created as a result of a measure that passed the Maryland General Assembly earlier this year will start looking at ways to get more information about pesticide use in the state. This group — which will consist of...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Environmental Issues, Baltimore County, Asthma, Environmental Politics
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Recreation and outdoors calendar
Surfing regionals Through today, May 12: The Eastern Surfing Association's 2013 Mid-Atlantic Regional Surfing Championships will be held in Ocean City off the beach near 48th Street. For hours, registration and more information, call 800-399-6820 or...Tags: Sailing, Ocean Surfing, Baltimore County, St. Michaels, Ocean City
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Chesapeake Bay's health said to be improving [Letter]
Editor: A recent Aegis editorial about the health of the Chesapeake Bay ("Stormwater fee set low in Harford the best of a bad situation," April 23) is [off base]. Certainly the job of restoring the Bay is far from finished, but the Aegis is incorrect in...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Rivers, Environmental Politics, Chesapeake Bay
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Stormwater problem is real
Many thanks go to Alison Prost of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for her explanation of the stormwater fee ("Beyond 'rain tax' rhetoric," May 1). I would like to add a little historical background. When Europeans first visited the Chesapeake Bay, it...
Tags: Fertilizer, Chemical Industry
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Anne Arundel council overrides stormwater fee veto, then considers tweaks
The Anne Arundel County Council voted Wednesday to override County Executive Laura Neuman's veto of fees to pay for stormwater pollution projects, but council members then offered changes that could address some of her concerns. It was not clear...
Tags: Business, Annapolis, Rivers, Severna Park, Elections
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Getting past the 'rain tax' rhetoric
Stormwater is the only source of pollution to local waterways that is growing. There has been much talk lately of stormwater fees as a "rain tax." While catchy, the moniker really doesn't tell the story. The story begins when those raindrops hit parking...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Rivers, Laura Neuman
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Pitching in to save the bay
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's recently released 2012 State of the Bay Report tells us the health of the Chesapeake Bay has improved 14 percent since 2008. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, we hear...
Tags: Business, Environmental Issues, Rivers, Energy Saving, Talbot County
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Arundel executive vetoes 'rain tax' fee
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura A. Neuman on Thursday vetoed that county’s version of the so-called rain tax — making it the first jurisdiction to take action against the controversial state-mandated stormwater management fee. Under...
Tags: Media Industry, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Annapolis, Elections, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Arundel executive vetoes stormwater fee
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura A. Neuman on Thursday vetoed that county's version of the so-called rain tax — making it the first jurisdiction to take action against the state-mandated stormwater management fee. Under legislation approved last...Tags: Business, Media Industry, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Annapolis, Crime, Law and Justice
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