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Environmental Education

As schools rethink their learning strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the opportunity to include more outdoor learning. Most large public…

The summer’s scorching temperatures combined with returning traffic on roadways across D.C., Maryland and Virginia means the chances of poor air quality are on…

Chances of rain will increase early this week as Tropical Storm Isaias moves closer to the area, with a possibility for torrential tropical downpours…

A husband and wife, who are volunteer leaders for the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club, both received national volunteering awards from the national…

Four years after the first of two major floods hit Ellicott City, its historic county seat, taking two lives and devastating many businesses and…

Major environmental legislation sailed through Congress Wednesday while the nation’s political leaders were stuck in intense negotiations over the contours of a fifth COVID-19…

Item: The U.S. Department of Justice announces Friday that Commonwealth Edison, the leading electric utility in Illinois, will pay a $200 million fine for…

Clean water advocates are planning to sue a West Virginia coal company for pollution in the Potomac River. The Potomac Riverkeeper Network, Environmental Integrity…

Planners in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties launched a full-throated attack on the Hogan administration’s plan to add privately-funded toll lanes to two interstate…

Maryland this week has entered into an agreement with 14 other states and the District of Columbia to reduce emissions from trucks, buses, and other…