Links:

• Chesapeake Bay Program

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Spa Creek Conservancy

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: New EPA clean drinking water regulations are requiring older cities to spend hundreds of millions of dollars converting above-ground drinking water reservoirs into underground water storage tanks to prevent risk of people getting sick from a parasite, cryptosporidium, carried by Canada Geese.  Critics say that's a lot of money, especially for poor cities like Baltimore that have never had anyone become ill from the parasite." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• SouthWings

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: EPA's revised sewage consent decree for Baltimore, which has been dumping raw waste into the inner harbor for years -- and now has another 13 years to fix the problem." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Magothy River Association
  
  
• Magothy River Association Facebook page
  
  
• Video of Cattail Creek
  
  
• Video of Beavers of Cattail Commons
  
  
• Magothy River Index 2016

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A doubling in the extent of the underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay over the last five years suggests that EPA pollution limits put into place in 2010 are working." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Weather It Together
  
  
• Keeping History Above Water Conference
  
  
• International Conference on Monuments and Sites
  

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: Proposed tariffs on the import of Chinese-made solar panels to help American manufacturers -- and how an international trade dispute could raise the price of solar power, and hurt solar installation companies in Maryland and elsewhere" Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Anne Arundel Soil Conservation District
  
  
  • Recommendations/Best Practices for Farmers to Protect the Land & Environment
    
    
• Homestead Gardens
  

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The political winds blowing around Congressman Andy Harris' efforts to throw a wrench into the offshore wind farm planned east of Ocean City." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Rotary Club of Annapolis
  
  
• 2017 Crab Feast
  
  
• Interview About the Crab Feast on Comcast Newsmakers

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: Keeping cattle out of streams to protect the Bay." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  
  
• Celebrate Hummingbirds - Audubon site

Left: Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Summertime visitor
Right: Rufous Hummingbird
Wintertime visitor
Photos: Audubon

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: President Trump's infrastructure plan, and what it means for Maryland and the U.S." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Maryland Green Registry
  
  
• Green Registry Leadership Awards
  
  
• Green Drinks Annapolis Hosts Leadership Awards Wednesday, June 14

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The clash between the entrenched car culture and the growing bike culture in Maryland." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Left to right: Standing - Nina Fisher, Suzanne Etgen, Tom Guay, Kate Fritz;
Sitting - Amy Clements, Vic Pascoe, Elvia Thompson

Link:

• The GreenGive

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: "Green Accounting and the economic value of wildlife." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Shorelines: Life at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - "Ships Struggle To Battle Invasive Species As Global Trade Surges"
  
  
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Jenny Carney & Kimberly Holzer sampling ballast water plankton from a cargo ship at a Chesapeake Bay coal terminal
photo by Kimberly Holzer

Ballast researchers at work

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A kayak exploration of the abandoned Patapsco River military base, Fort Carroll -- and island that has now been completely taken over by birds and is a huge and noisy breeding ground for cormorants, herons and great egrets." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Back Creek Conservancy

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A new study by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center that concludes that efforts over the last 13 years to reduce invasive species into the Chesapeake Bay by requiring ships to dump their ballast water at sea have backfired, as more exotic critters than ever are hitchhiking aboard a growing global fleet of coal ships." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Chesapeake Bay Program
  
  
• Maryland Department of the Environment
  
  
• University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
  
  
• Chesapeake Bay Report Card

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: Disagreeing with the deadline theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has created for humanity to find a new planet to live on: 100 years. After that, Dr. Hawking believes we pass the tipping point for polluting the Earth so badly, that we must move on." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• About Bob Greenwell
• Anne Arundel Beekeepers Association
• Honey's Harvest Farm
• Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (BUMBA)
• Homestead Gardens' Bee a Hero Pollinator Club
• Bee Friendly Food Alliance

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: Keeping cattle out of streams to protect the Bay." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Bee City & Bee Campus USA

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The Science March in Washington DC and similar marches across the country on Saturday... and the Trump Administration's cuts to scientific research." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  
  
• Earth Day Premier of "An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch" on the Smithsonian Channel
  
  
• Smithsonian Earth Optimism Summit

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: President Trump is proposing to open up the East Coast and mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to offshore drilling. This is one of several examples of the Trump Administration cutting environmental regulations to try to give a boost to an oil and gas industry that does not need it -- and is hurt by its own excesses." Produced by Tom Peyton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Choose Clean Water Coalition
  
  
• Maryland League of Conservation Voters

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A Maryland General Assembly wrap-up, featuring the ban on fracking, the protection of oyster sanctuaries, restrictions on antibiotics fed to farm animals, and a bill that would have outlawed Styrofoam cups and packaging materials that never even made it out of committee." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• St. Luke's Episcopal Church's Restoration of Nature Project
  
  
• Buy a Lady a Drink Campaign
  
  
• water.org
  

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: As the Trump Administration works to dismantle the EPA, he examines the bigger question of why we even need regulations. We visit Hopewell, Virginia, and examine what may have been the worst environmental disaster in the history of the Chesapeake Bay region: the kepone pesticide contamination of workers and the James River in 1974 and 1975.." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Maryland League of Conservation Voters
  
  
• Fair Farms Maryland
  
  
• Waterkeepers Chesapeake
  

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: President Trump's proposed elimination of all funding for the Chesapeake Bay cleanup program." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Chesapeake Bay Program Climate Adaptation
• Quarterly Chesapeake Resiliency News Newsletter sign-up
  

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Magothy River Association
  
  
• Magothy River Association Facebook page
  
  
• Magothy River Index 2016

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The recent anti-fracking march in Annapolis and the debate over whether to ban or just impose another two-year pause on hydraulic fracturing -- with the Governor suggesting he would like neither, preferring to "drill baby drill." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• The Bay Gardener Column in Bay Weekly
  • The World Needs More Compost
• US Composting Council
• EPA Guide to Composting at Home
• Master Gardeners/Master Composters - Anne Arundel County Extension Service

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our grocery stores, and whether GMOs are actually better or worse for human health and the environment." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Senate Bill SB 740
• House Bill HB 1325

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A critique of Governor Hogan's proposal to open up some of the Chesapeake Bay's new and successful oyster sanctuaries to power dredging." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Forest Conservation Reforestation Bill O-38-16

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A statewide ban on polystyrene." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Trash Free Maryland

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: Scrutinizing the claim that environmental regulations 'kill jobs.'" Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Making Sense of Climate Change: A Six-Part Series
  
  
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The federal mandate for ethanol in vehicle fuel and how it hurts the Chesapeake Bay and wildlife across the U.S." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Maryland League of Conservation Voters
  
  
• Environmental Legislative Summit RSVP site
  
  
• Report Card on Governor Hogan

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: The likely next EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, did a linguistic tapdance before the U.S. Senate last week during his confirmation hearing over whether he would enforce the Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Fair Farms Maryland
• Waterkeepers Chesapeake
• Keep Antibiotics Working

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: New song by environmentalist singer/songwriter Sean Madden, about the resilience of nature in the face of political tumult. " Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more

Links:

• Chesapeake Bay Program

Special Feature
"The Environment in Focus: A preview of the hot environmental subjects in the upcoming General Assembly session including a bill to ban fracking; an over-ride of Governor Hogan's veto in May of clean energy legislation; and a Hogan proposal to use sewage upgrade "flush tax" funding to start a pollution trading program in the Bay." Produced by Tom Pelton and WYPR 88.1FM public radio in Baltimore. | more