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While 99% of Marylanders and 80% of Virginians live within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, only 30% of people living in Pennsylvania do. Because there…

In an effort to reduce carbon emissions faster, Maryland lawmakers introduced a bill this year to promote the use of geothermal energy — one…

Marylanders across all congressional districts strongly support the Biden Administration’s American Jobs Act and the investments it would make in climate, clean energy, good-paying…

Emissions

In March, President Biden unveiled the American Jobs Plan, an historic investment in the United States’ long-neglected infrastructure systems. The plan, which is undergirded…

As climate change leads to hotter days across the country, the cost of cooling public school buildings grows higher. New research estimates that more…

The governors of the six Chesapeake Bay states, along with the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the head of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, have…

A $430 million project that aims to curtail 80% of Baltimore City’s sewage overflows into the Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay was formally completed…

The Coalition for Green Capital this week announced that it has hired Meghan Conklin, a former policy adviser to U.S. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)…

Plastic

In Maryland, reducing plastic waste and finding climate solutions have broad support among Marylanders. From plastic foam and bag bans to clean energy and…

Second in a two-part series. It’s relatively easy for College Park community and university leaders to agree on the need for affordable graduate student…