Jeremy Cox
Environmental Journalist at The Bay Journal
@ChesBayJournal environmental reporter covering Maryland and Virginia. @salisburyu journalism professor. Host of @chesuncharted podcast. Baseball nerd.
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1 week ago |
bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox
The legal clouds hanging over a sprawling commercial development under construction in Baltimore County have dissipated. A group of neighbors had been joined by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in a lawsuit alleging that subsidiaries of New York-based real estate firm Reich Brothers had committed multiple environmental violations during construction. But the opponents dropped the case April 22, barely a month after filing it in Baltimore County Circuit Court.
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1 week ago |
bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox
Visitors to some Maryland state parks, especially those offering water recreation, will now need to acquire reservations on weekends and holidays during the busy summer months, officials say. The Maryland Park Service announced May 6 that it will no longer allow access to people who arrive without reservations at Greenbrier and Sandy Point state parks during such times beginning May 24.
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3 weeks ago |
southernmarylandchronicle.com | Jeremy Cox |David Higgins
As Crisfield Mayor Darlene Taylor sees it, the low-lying Maryland town has no future unless it can hold back rising water. Computer models suggest that the adjacent Chesapeake Bay could get high enough by 2050 to trigger daily floods that are deep enough to stall cars on roads. Hope arrived in the form of a federal grant program under the Federal Emergency Management Agency, created during the first Trump administration.
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3 weeks ago |
bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox
As Crisfield Mayor Darlene Taylor sees it, the low-lying Maryland town has no future unless it can hold back rising water. Computer models suggest that the adjacent Chesapeake Bay could get high enough by 2050 to trigger daily floods that are deep enough to stall cars on roads. Hope arrived in the form of a federal grant program under the Federal Emergency Management Agency, created during the first Trump administration.
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1 month ago |
southernmarylandchronicle.com | Jeremy Cox |David Higgins
If the District of Columbia were nine times larger, it still wouldn’t equal the area of forests lost to saltwater intrusion along Maryland’s coasts in the past decade alone. Every July, when Heather Disque surveys the landscape from her state-issued Cessna, she documents thousands more acres of trees in death throes. It’s only a matter of a few years before they wither into desiccated husks and topple over, she said. By then, the ground itself likely will be wetter, having converted to a saltmarsh.
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