Study Says Energy Regulations Won’t Pinch Pocketbooks

ANNAPOLIS – Forcing power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions will not make consumers – or in most cases the power plants themselves – feel a pinch in their pocketbooks, according to a study released Thursday

Scientists Support Bill to Save Maryland’s Oysters

ANNAPOLIS – Fishery scientist Stephanie Reynolds had wanted to bring an oyster aquarium into the plush meeting room of the House Environmental Matters Committee to demonstrate how oysters can filter water from murky to clear in a matter of minutes

^’Emotionally Beaten Up’ Sculptor Helps Dismantle Own Work

ANNAPOLIS – It was below freezing Friday morning on a sunny little peninsula in Harness Creek

^Annapolis Sculpture ‘Unsafe’ and Must be Torn Down, Officials Say

ANNAPOLIS- From the Wildwood Trail, artist Al Zaruba’s sculpture looks like a bewitching child’s playhouse resembling an illustration from a Brothers Grimm fairytale

^Invasive Beetle Threatens Area Ash Trees

CHELTENHAM – Three years ago, Helen Kittredge, noticed the leaves on the 21-year-old ash tree in her front yard were dying

Scientists Discover the Deadly Toxin Associated With Pfiesteria

ANNAPOLIS – Federal researchers announced Thursday they have identified the toxin released by Pfiesteria – the microscopic marine organism nicknamed “the cell from hell” responsible for mass fish killings and human health problems in the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere along the East Coast in the late 1990s