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West Baltimore Residents, Students Have Mixed Feelings About Water Quality After E. Coli Contamination

After E. coli contamination in September left West Baltimore residents under a boil water advisory for four days, some residents are drinking the water again while others remain leery.

By Darreonna Davis

Workers with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works distribute jugs of water to city residents at the Landsdowne Branch of the Baltimore County Library on Sept. 6, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The City of Baltimore issued a boil water advisory to over 1,500 residential and commercial facilities in West Baltimore after E. coli bacteria was found in drinking water. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Xinrong Ren, a climate scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), notes down readings from air pollution monitoring instrument fitted on the mobile lab after surveying methane hotspots in and around Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar

NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

By Aman Azhar

An aerial view of Baltimore city skyline on Dec. 1, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

A Big Federal Grant Aims to Make Baltimore a Laboratory for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

By Aman Azhar

A wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Maryland. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

Baltimore Public Works Museum (formerly Sewage Pumping Station) in Little Italy on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

A Federal Judge Wants More Information on Polluting Discharges From Baltimore’s Troubled Sewage Treatment Plants

By Aman Azhar

View along the Patapsco River in downtown Baltimore on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

Baltimore’s ‘Catastrophic Failures’ at Wastewater Treatment Have Triggered a State Takeover, a Federal Lawsuit and Citizen Outrage

By Aman Azhar

JC Hudgins pulls in his test crab pots in the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews, Virginia, on Friday, June 10, 2022. Credit: Kristen Zeis/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

Why the Chesapeake Bay’s Beloved Blue Crabs Are at an All-Time Low

By Aman Azhar

Paint peels from the side of a home along 37th Avenue on Sunday, April 9, 2017, in Oakland, California. Credit: Aric Crabb/Bay Area News via Getty Images

Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says

By Agya K. Aning

Vehicles washed into a pile behind a building in historic Ellicott City as flood waters raged through its streets following torrential thunderstorms in Ellicott City, Maryland on May 27, 2018. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In Baltimore, Helping Congregations Prepare for a Stormier Future

By Agya K. Aning

Part-time worker Kenneth Moss, animal caretaker Charles DeBarber and collective founder Marvin Hayes pose in front of a mural in the Filbert Street Community garden on Nov. 2, 2021. Two turkeys, Archie and Teka, also wanted their pictures taken. Credit: Agya K. Aning

A Bridge to Composting and Clean Air in South Baltimore

By Agya K. Aning

Southbound Interstate 95 is seen in Baltimore, Maryland on March 22, 2017. Credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Long Concerned About Air Pollution, Baltimore Experienced Elevated Levels on 43 Days in 2020

By Agya K. Aning

Students planting seedlings during a field trip to Great Kids Farm in 2019. Photo courtesy of Anne Rosenthal

In Baltimore Schools, Cutting Food Waste as a Lesson in Climate Awareness and Environmental Literacy

By Agya K. Aning

Baltimore Aspires to ‘Zero Waste’ But Recycles Only a Tiny Fraction of its Residential Plastic

By Agya K. Aning

Row homes are seen in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Maryland Thought Deregulating Utilities Would Lower Rates. It’s Cost the State’s Residents Hundreds of Millions of Dollars.

By Agya K. Aning

The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator is seen near Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland, March 09, 2019. Credit: Eva Claire Hambach/AFP via Getty Images

Baltimore Continues Incinerating Trash, Despite Opposition from its New Mayor and City Council

By Agya K. Aning

Why the Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing ‘Energy Burdens’

By Agya K. Aning

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends the funeral of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the U.S Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington, DC. Credit: Jabin Botsford - Pool/Getty Images

The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change. Is it Ready to Decide Which Courts Have Jurisdiction?

By David Hasemyer

Aerial view of the Inner Harbor and Baltimore skyline featuring World Trade Center Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Could Baltimore’s Climate Change Suit Become a Supreme Court Test Case?

By David Hasemyer

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