Living Green

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.