Adam Willis
Environment Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Climate & environment reporter, @BaltimoreBanner | Previously western North Dakota for @inforum [email protected]
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4 days ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
In a rushed vote Monday, Hyattsville leaders approved an agreement to buy a plot of land to expand the city’s largest park, despite not assessing the property’s value. Their purchase hinges on $3.5 million in state funds the Maryland General Assembly recently allotted for the Washington, D.C., suburb but comes as some in the community worry they’re overpaying by millions and bailing out a developer’s failed project. Hyattsville leaders have long coveted the parcel next to David C.
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6 days ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
In 2019, a developer dropped $4.35 million to buya coveted piece of land in Hyattsville, a city inside the Capital Beltway in Prince George’s County. Now, after years of lawsuits and stymied development, the company wants to sell the least-desirable part, a flood-prone former parking lot next to the city’s biggest park, to the city for millions more than it paid for the larger parcel.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
About six months after a maritime accident collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Capt. Ben Carver steered his boat past the wreckage site to the oyster sanctuary he and other environmentalists had fostered nearby, not sure what he would find. May 23, 2025May 15, 2025May 13, 2025Carver had been there, at the underwater reef beside Fort Carroll, just beyond the Key Bridge, hours before the March 26 collapse.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
The waters in Baltimore’s long-suffering Harbor may not be rebounding as much as many have hoped, but officials plan to stage another public swim there next month. Mayor Brandon Scott, City Council members and scores of other Baltimore boosters and residents jumped from a Fells Point dock into the harbor a year ago in a symbolic leap to demonstrate the water’s safety. It was the first public swim in the harbor in decades.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
To Maryland environmental activists, penalizing fossil fuel companies for the damages of climate change looks like a no-brainer. Other liberal states like New York and Vermont already have put such plans into motion, passing “climate superfund” laws to fine titans like ExxonMobil and Chevron billions of dollars. But the effort in Maryland is on ice — at least for now — after Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a bill Friday that would have studied how much these fossil fuel companies could owe the state.
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RT @Tim_Prudente: Maryland lawmakers started a program two years ago to pay for new parks in poor and polluted neighborhoods. So where did…
When Maryland lawmakers approved the Greenspace Equity Program two years ago, they wanted to support parks in poor and polluted communities. This year, they scrapped the process and boosted one of Baltimore's richest and greenest neighborhoods instead. https://t.co/RtuV0fjB3j