With $25 Million and Community Collaboration, Baltimore Is Becoming a Living Climate Lab A Johns Hopkins climate scientist named Ben Zaitchik came to the city to study the heat island effect. Now, with millions in federal funding, he’s putting neighborhood concerns at the heart of the five-year project on urban heat, flooding, air pollution and decarbonization. By Aman Azhar
Baltimore City, Maryland Department of the Environment Settle Lawsuits Over City-Operated Sewage Treatment Plants By Aman Azhar
Laurel Peltier Took On Multi-Million Dollar Private Energy Companies Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households, One Victim at a Time By Aman Azhar
Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City. By Aman Azhar
On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City By Aman Azhar
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeals From Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Change Lawsuits By Emma Ricketts
West Baltimore Residents, Students Have Mixed Feelings About Water Quality After E. Coli Contamination By Darreonna Davis
NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants By Aman Azhar
A Big Federal Grant Aims to Make Baltimore a Laboratory for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience By Aman Azhar
Toxic Releases From Industrial Facilities Compound Maryland’s Water Woes, a New Report Found By Aman Azhar
City and State Officials Continue Searching for the Cause of Last Week’s E. Coli Contamination of Baltimore’s Water By Aman Azhar
A Federal Judge Wants More Information on Polluting Discharges From Baltimore’s Troubled Sewage Treatment Plants By Aman Azhar
Baltimore’s ‘Catastrophic Failures’ at Wastewater Treatment Have Triggered a State Takeover, a Federal Lawsuit and Citizen Outrage By Aman Azhar
Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says By Agya K. Aning