Environment

by Mark ReutterSep 13, 2019

About 2,000 fish, including the endangered American eel, are found dead after a city water pipe burst and let out hundreds of thousands of gallons of chlorinated water

Sep 7, 2019

Student journalists show who in Baltimore is hit hardest by climate change and why

Using temperature sensors and an equity lens, an ambitious University of Maryland project gives the global climate crisis a hard local look.

Special SeriesAug 27, 2019

An obscure manhole is an outsized source of sewage pollution in Baltimore

BREW EXCLUSIVE: What’s been popping off, releasing millions of gallons of sewage this summer? A single manhole stack in Herring Run Park.

Special SeriesAug 20, 2019

Baltimore County reports a sewage spill it claims really didn’t happen

The county government doesn’t want the public to know about sewage problems at Lake Roland, an environmental activist says.

Special SeriesAug 12, 2019

Baltimore County says it is unaware of sewage spill at Lake Roland

When The Brew visited the site today, plastic debris still fluttered on nearby tree branches and the area had a distinct smell of rotting waste.

Aug 2, 2019

Mercy High School’s tree-cutting penalty gets chopped in half

Baltimore Planning Commission reverses itself and lowers fee against the Catholic girls’ school. “A dangerous precedent,” environmentalists say.

May 31, 2019

The price of tree cutting at Mercy High School: $182,000

Apr 26, 2019

Amid campaign contributions and Healthy Holly purchases by BGE and Exelon officials, pipeline bill advances

Special SeriesApr 19, 2019

Fear that “the public” has lost a park, as private developer creates outdoor bar in South Baltimore

Mar 3, 2019

DPW offers little room for compromise, at this point, on Filbert Street Garden

Feb 28, 2019

Is BGE pipeline price a sweetheart deal between the utility and the Pugh administration?

Feb 13, 2019

Pugh says she will sign incinerator clean-up bill

Special SeriesDec 1, 2018

Baltimore cuts 30-foot spruce in Druid Hill Park for City Hall Christmas tree

Nov 5, 2018

Update from the Compost Collective: New shed, new goats, new customers

Oct 4, 2018

The Druid Lake construction mess: It didn’t have to be this way

Oct 4, 2018

The Druid Lake construction mess: Amid high turbidity levels, MDE calls for more tests

Sep 10, 2018

Jobs for Baltimore’s youth and a second life for its trashed food

Sep 4, 2018

Baltimore summers: Hot now and, in 22 years, much hotter

Aug 7, 2018

Total sewage overflow in July rises to 85 million gallons

Jul 30, 2018

A staggering new estimate of Baltimore sewage overflows: 45 million gallons

Jul 27, 2018

After heavy rains, city waterways “flush” with another 10 million gallon sewage overflow

Jul 24, 2018

Businesses evacuated, bridges closed as Jones Falls rises

Jul 12, 2018

At hearing on reservoir projects, councilman asks: “Where’s Rudy Chow?”

Jul 11, 2018

Project to protect city’s drinking water has so far compromised it