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Most Home Remodeling Will Soon Require EPA-Certified Workers

Most Home Remodeling Will Soon Require EPA-Certified Workers

Planning to remodel? Unless your home is fairly new, only renovators specially certified to handle lead will soon be legally allowed to do the work. The problem: there aren't many of them yet.

The Department Of Agriculture Lax In Watching Organics Market

The Department Of Agriculture Lax In Watching Organics Market

The Department of Agriculture has failed to enforce penalties against some who falsely marketed foods as organic, according to an internal department investigation.

Get Hired: Tips for Starting Up A Business, From Dog Diapers To A Green Pet Store

Get Hired: Tips for Starting Up A Business, From Dog Diapers To A Green Pet Store

Three local entrepreneurs share the secrets of their success in inventing a disposable dog diaper to opening a green Pet store that sells a raw food diet for dogs and cats.

MD Lawmakers Mull Tax Breaks on Electric Vehicles

MD Lawmakers Mull Tax Breaks on Electric Vehicles

The Maryland Senate is backing excise tax breaks for residents who buy electric vehicles.

Early Butterflies Linked To Global Warming

Early Butterflies Linked To Global Warming

Researchers say they have proven for the first time that man-made global warming is changing an animal's life-cycle.

Maryland Senate Backs Chesapeake Conservation Corps

Maryland Senate Backs Chesapeake Conservation Corps

The new program would let residents work on energy conservation or environmental projects

IOC Will Question Sochi On Environmental Record

IOC Will Question Sochi On Environmental Record

The International Olympic Committee will send the panel overseeing game preparations to the Russian resort in April

Virginia Opens Crab Season

Virginia Opens Crab Season

March 17 marks the beginning of blue crab season in the Old Dominion, but most of the catch is still hibernating for winter

EPA To Examine Flea & Tick Products

EPA To Examine Flea & Tick Products

Products meant to kill fleas and ticks may actually be killing hundreds of pets, and injuring tens of thousands more

Groups Want Review Of Montgomery County Stormwater Permit

Groups Want Review Of Montgomery County Stormwater Permit

Environmentalists say the county's current plan doesn't limit how much pollution can wash into the Potomac River

Group Calls For Measures To Save Beluga Sturgeon

Group Calls For Measures To Save Beluga Sturgeon

The International Union for Conservation of Nature says appetites for caviar are pushing the fish toward extinction

Families Sue Over Gasoline In Drinking Water

Families Sue Over Gasoline In Drinking Water

20 Frederick County families say the owners of a Monrovia gas station contaminated their drinking water

UN Rejects Export Ban On Bluefin Tuna

UN Rejects Export Ban On Bluefin Tuna

Japan and Canada led the charge against the measure designed to boost stocks of the prized sushi ingredient

Sharks Threatened By Asian Consumers, Says Group

Sharks Threatened By Asian Consumers, Says Group

Surging demand for shark fin soup among Asia's booming middle classes is driving many species of these big fish to the brink of extinction, a marine conservation group said Tuesday.

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