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New Chesapeake Bay Data Tool
(Posted by David Burke.)
Chesapeake Commons, a new web resource, now provides informative maps and data about nearly any type of information relevant to the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Commons is made available through the sponsorship of the Chesapeake Bay Funder’s Network. CBFN’s new data tool is powered by Rhiza Labs’ Insight software that makes it easy for users to store, map and analyze whatever data is of interest to them.
Read MoreA New Day for the Anacostia River
(Posted by Jeanne McCann.)
What are you doing Monday, May 2, 2011? How about joining a mass of D.C. dignitaries for the release of D.C. Appleseed’s latest report, A New Day for the Anacostia: A National Model for Urban River Revitalization?
Read More“No Farms No Food”: No Regs?
(Posted by Howard Ernst.)
The truck ahead of me had a constellation of conservative bumper stickers. The kind of stuff you would never see on a Prius. Most of them were familiar conservative messaging, the obligatory National Rifle Association sticker in the rear window, a slogan against taxation (even with representation), but there was one sticker in particular that glared at me from the vehicle’s rear end. It simply stated, “No Farms, No Food.”
Read MoreArsenic With a Side of Chicken
(Posted by Kathy Phillips.)
Arsenic is a poison. It’s a metalloid or ‘heavy metal’. It is a carcinogenic. Its use in pesticides has been banned in the U.S. since 1988. But when it comes to food production, it is quite allowed.
Read MoreChesapeake Bay Pollution Quiz
(Posted by Senator Gerald Winegrad.)
You may have bombed the SATs, but here’s a chance to redeem yourself.
Fracking in Maryland: Proceed with Caution
(Posted by Sen. Brian Frosh.)
You may have heard reports that oil and gas companies have leased about 90,000 acres of land in Maryland for drilling in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation that undergirds the Appalachians from Virginia to Southern New York and is thought to contain trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
Natural gas offers tremendous opportunity. It is the cleanest burning fossil fuel and can heat homes, run utilities, power vehicles, and help free the nation from foreign oil. It also promises significant economic benefits for western Maryland, as it rests under parts of Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties.
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