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Are Your Home Grown Fruits And Veggies Safe?

Are Your Home Grown Fruits And Veggies Safe?

Depending on where you live, the soil you grow your fruits and vegetables in may not be safe.

White House Garden Tests Positive For Lead

White House Garden Tests Positive For Lead

First lady Michelle Obama planted the garden on the South Lawn this spring with local schoolchildren.

Frederick Program Gets 'Green Jobs' Grant

Frederick Program Gets 'Green Jobs' Grant

A Frederick-based veterans' program has received a $500,000 grant through a federal "green jobs" program.

Maryland Starts Website To Encourage Green Businesses

Maryland Starts Website To Encourage Green Businesses

The Green Registry provides information and resources for companies about how to increase sustainability.

Fed Works To Speed Solar Development In Southwest

Fed Works To Speed Solar Development In Southwest

The government will help companies build powerful solar farms in the desert Southwest by pre-qualifying huge swaths of federal land for development.

Bay Group Sues Over River Pollution Limits

Bay Group Sues Over River Pollution Limits

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is challenging a Virginia State Water Control Board decision that allows Merck & Co. to increase its pollution discharge into the Shenandoah River.

EU, Phone Makers Agree On New Single Charger

EU, Phone Makers Agree On New Single Charger

Mobile phone makers to introduce a new single, more energy efficient charger that can be used for data-enabled handsets.

Maine CFL Recycling Law Is 1st In U.S.

Maine CFL Recycling Law Is 1st In U.S.

The law requires that a system be in place by 2011 for collecting and recycling the bulbs.

It's Virginia's First

It's Virginia's First "Platinum" Certified Home

There's a home in Arlington that is as Green as it gets.

Parks Aim To Reduce Visitor Emissions, Their Own

Parks Aim To Reduce Visitor Emissions, Their Own

Officials at parks across the country are trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with the help of federal stimulus dollars.

Greener Diet Reduces Dairy Cows' Methane Burps

Greener Diet Reduces Dairy Cows' Methane Burps

The gas cows belch is the dairy industry's biggest greenhouse gas contributor most of it emitted from the front and not the back end of the cow.

"Green" Product Claims Often Go Unchecked

Despite the flood of "green" products on the market these days, the government watchdog in charge of such claims takes no action to verify them.

Southern Maryland Pesticide Recycling Program

Southern Maryland Pesticide Recycling Program

Southern Maryland residents will be able to recycle empty pesticide containers through the Maryland Department of Agriculture's (MDA) 17th annual Pesticide Container Recycling Program.

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