WASHINGTON – The just-ended state tobacco auction attracted more buyers and brought farmers a higher price per pound than last year, despite a steep drop in the amount of leaf sold

WASHINGTON – Maryland is targeting consumer products, from deodorant and perfume to gasoline cans and paint, in its latest effort to bring ozone levels down to federal standards in 2005

WASHINGTON – More than 46 percent of Maryland’s industrial and municipal facilities violated pollution standards of their Clean Water Act permits during an 18-month period in 2002 and 2003, the Maryland Public Interest Research Group reported

WASHINGTON – Developers and environmentalists were in rare agreement Tuesday, telling a congressional panel that unclear language in the Clean Water Act has caused disparities in how states define and protect wetlands

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and environmentalists argued Thursday that an international plan to limit the introduction of invasive species in ships’ ballast is not nearly stringent enough to protect U

WASHINGTON – Come Tuesday, Amish farmers in Cecil County will abandon their buggies and hire truckers to haul their tobacco to Charles County, where the Farmers and Hughesville warehouses are the only two tobacco-auction sites left in the state

WASHINGTON – The state’s tobacco buyout program was supposed to cut production of the crop and help farmers ease into alternate crops

WASHINGTON – The rebound of rockfish is “one of the unparalleled success stories in fishery preservation,” which is why a ban on striped-bass fishing in federal waters should remain until scientific evidence says otherwise, a federal official testified Thursday

WASHINGTON – Maryland will get more than $6

WASHINGTON – State officials have destroyed nearly 600 trees and will cut at least 500 more to stop a parasitic Asian beetle that, if left unchecked, could exact $227