Some of the most poisoned water in Maryland flows out of a hillside here, its color like Coca-Cola and its acidity in the same range as stomach juices. The water runs through a culvert into Georges Creek, turning it the colors of the autumn leaves overhea …

A massive Beaufort County strip-mining operation wants to expand its extraction of phosphate ore in one of the state’s most environmentally fragile areas. The proposal by PCS Phosphate, if approved, would represent the single largest destruction of wetl …