Adam Willis

The Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge would protect up to 40,000 acres, potentially establishing the largest conservation area of this kind in the state.

A similar “climate superfund” bill was approved by New York lawmakers in June, while Vermont became the first state to institute a law like this one earlier in the year.

The decades-old poultry processing plant in Dorchester County has had repeated pollution issues in recent years. Environmental regulators, though, did not say whether they plan to rewrite their permit for the facility or appeal the court’s decision.

Trump attempted to slash funding for the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Program in all four years of his presidency. Though Congress ultimately blocked those proposals, Maryland environmentalists are preparing to go on the defense again.

Democrats appeared poised to sweep contests for the City Council, an expected outcome of Tuesday’s election that would cements a younger and potentially more progressive panel of legislators to represent Baltimore for the next four years.

The shift likely has major implications on who is nominated in future elections as more voters opt out of participating in closed primaries and partisans gain power.

Whether the David Smith-financed effort to shrink the City Council is approved or rejected has big implications for the future of politics in Baltimore.

The tourist town’s lawsuit, filed Friday, comes after months of threats and as seaside communities in other parts of the East Coast have waged an offensive against a nascent U.S. offshore wind industry.

Councilwoman Odette Ramos championed legislation to establish a “land bank,” but she pulled back the legislation when it came time for the city council to vote.

More than 136 employees in the solid waste division don’t receive health insurance from the city, the inspector general found, and many of them didn’t even realize they were uninsured.