Climate & environment

A “volatile” and “severe” storm system will travel down the East Coast on Monday, bringing with it rain, wind, light snow and possible tornadoes.

Gov. Wes Moore and legislative leaders are backing a bill aimed at lowering Maryland energy bills, offering rebates and imposing new rules on utilities and data centers.

The tornado hit the small community of Cooksville just after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a weather service report released on Friday.

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash already hit much of the East.

COLUMN | This is Holly Beach Farm. Minutes outside of Annapolis, it is a pocket wilderness hidden next to highways and urban centers. The state bought it for $1 and is figuring out how the public can enjoy it without loving it to death.

In recent years, a state fund meant to finance clean energy has ballooned, making it a tempting reserve to Maryland leaders in lean budget times.

The same cold front that brought severe thunderstorms and power outages to the region Wednesday night is sticking around through early next week.

Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm threats and a statewide hazardous weather outlook blanketed Maryland on Wednesday evening.

A problem with processing sewage sludge at Baltimore’s largest wastewater treatment plant has driven one of its operators to ship local sewage out of state at a cost of millions of dollars a month to the city.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman told the County Council on Tuesday that a development moratorium covering part of northern Anne Arundel County is a “five-alarm fire” that he wants to move quickly to resolve.

Temperatures will near record highs in Central Maryland on Tuesday and Wednesday, then quickly drop by the end of the week, according to the National Weather Service.

While the sun has been shy these last couple of weeks, things are starting to look up.

Nearing the end of Maryland's worst oyster harvests in years, Gov. Wes Moore appealed to President Donald Trump for disaster aid. But whether the Chesapeake Bay's oystermen will get help from the federal government isn't clear.

COLUMN | Hours after President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, word spread that Annapolis would finally get $35 million crucial to its massive remake of City Dock.

Elected officials, economic leaders and other analysts were all caught off guard by a potential five-year development moratorium in the part of Anne Arundel County surrounding BWI, Arundel Mills and just north of Ft. Meade.

WSSC Water customers in Maryland will likely pay for the cleanup and repairs of the collapsed Potomac Interceptor pipeline.

A Anne Arundel Public Works spokesperson said officials learned last month from Baltimore City that they could not purchase additional capacity in the sewage system, prompting the suspension that the county described in its news release as an “emergency.”

Data from the Maryland Department of Health shows 64 people have died due to cold weather.

Saturday through Wednesday, temperatures are expected to climb from the 60s to mid-70s, which is well above average for early March in the Baltimore area, according to the National Weather Service.

According to Baltimore Department of Finance projections, the loss of all that garbage will yield about $4 million less than what budget writers had anticipated.