BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Friday in the Baltimore area. A Code Orange Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung diseases and the elderly. The effects …
NOTTINGHAM, MD—Thursday afternoon and evening could become quite hazy along the I-95 corridor. The Maryland Department of the Environment says that winds have pushed a plume of dense smoke from a wildfire in New Jersey to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Winds will shift the plume northward toward the I-95 corridor on Thursday afternoon and into the evening hours. Visible …
BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown on Tuesday announced two lawsuits, filed on behalf of the State of Maryland, the Maryland Department of Environment, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the Maryland Department of Health, seeking to hold multiple chemical manufacturers accountable for widespread and continuing contamination of Maryland’s natural resources and harm to public health. The lawsuits …
BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Friday in the Baltimore area. A Code Orange Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung diseases and the elderly. The effects …
BALTIMORE, MD—Seeing hazy skies this morning? The haze blanketing much of Maryland is being caused by smoke from wildfires in Canada that has made its to the Mid-Atlantic, Maryland Department of the Environment officials said on Wednesday morning. So far, more than 29,000 people have been evacuated from communities throughout Alberta as wildfires rage in Canada. The smoke is still …
WHITE MARSH, MD—The Maryland Department of the Environment will hold a public hearing to discuss the proposed Evans Funeral Chapel crematorium that is set to open in White Marsh. The public hearing will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company to discuss the proposed facility, planned for 11543 Philadelphia Road. …
UPDATE: A new public hearing has been scheduled by the Maryland Department of the Environment to discuss the proposed crematorium. Original story below… WHITE MARSH, MD—Plans for a crematorium in White Marsh are set to move forward after a piece of legislation was tabled earlier this week. A bill introduced by Councilman David Marks that would have prohibited the construction …
BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Friday in northern Baltimore County and northern Harford County. A Code Orange Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung diseases and …