Adam Willis
Environment Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Reporter, @BaltimoreBanner | Previously western North Dakota for @inforum [email protected]
Articles
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6 days ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
With much of Maryland experiencing severe drought, Baltimore Public Works officials are urging residents in the city and surrounding region to limit their water use heading into the summer.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
After securing guilty pleas and a record fine from Curtis Bay Energy and one of its top officials for environmental violations at the South Baltimore medical waste incinerator, Maryland prosecutors failed to make their case against a former plant manager. A Baltimore Circuit Court judge found the plant manager, Thomas Keefer, not guilty last week on all counts.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
Just about everyone on Mike Tidwell’s block has mourned a tree. Not long ago, a lush canopy blanketed Takoma Park’s old homes, but today, hundreds of trees across the city are gone. The culprit, Tidwell and local arborists contend, is climate change. Driven by an odd dip in the jet stream, heavy rains drenched the mid-Atlantic in 2018, drowning trees on Willow Avenue where Tidwell has lived for more than 30 years.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Emily Opilo |Adam Willis
Months before a massive fire swept through Baltimore’s Camp Small last year, a blaze that took days and multiple fire companies to extinguish, Baltimore was warned by state inspectors of a fire hazard on the site as well as conditions that could hamper an emergency response.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis
Every day, Baltimore sewage funnels into a building at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, where a local company processes it into dark sludge and ships it to farms, to be spread over cropland. Known in the industry as “biosolids,” the sewage sludge from Baltimore-area homes and businesses has helped crops grow this way for decades, providing a cheap and nutrient-rich alternative to traditional fertilizers. But the practice faces new scrutiny across the country.
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