Va., Md. Governors Urge Change for Chesapeake Bay
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The governors of Virginia and Maryland today urged a U.S. Senate panel to begin reducing the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions, during a hearing that described climate change's creeping impact on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Environmentalists concede that an ambitious multistate pledge to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by 2010 will fall short. That's because of the $28 billion cost and because the necessary sewage-treatment upgrades and other improvements will take longer than three years.
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By Rex Springston and Peter Hardin, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 12--Bigger dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay. Weed-infested forests. Sick fish.   This is scientist Roger Mann's vision of a Virginia afflicted by global warming.   Stressed, dying trees. Forest fires.
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By DEIRDRE FERNANDES  BY DEIRDRE FERNANDES  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  VIRGINIA BEACH - Sandbridge is buzzing again about a businessman's plan to build 76 boat docks close to the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, two years after it was first proposed.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 17--An environmental group is asking a court to throw out a state decision that aided Newport News' plans to develop a $235 million reservoir in King William County.
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Virginia plans to install a monitoring station in the Potomac River that will help boaters and fishermen while assisting marine biologists studying the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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By LAWRENCE TANE III  The Virginia Department of Transportation intends to go ahead with bridge-building plans in Richmond County that a federal agency warns will affect a tidal creek's population of bald eagles.  The U.S.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler faced aggressive questions yesterday from a pair of legislative committees as they pitched a plan to expand the state's DNA database, one of the governor's top priorities for the General Assembly's 90-day session.
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By Deirdre Fernandes, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 31--VIRGINIA BEACH -- Developers Steve and Art Sandler have asked a state commission to overturn a Virginia Beach decision that halted their plans to build 1,063 homes on a large stretch of waterfront property.
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The former governor talks to Virginians in video format, saying he wants to put the country "back on the right track.".
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Governors worried about damage to the economy and complained about years of neglecting energy policy after an Alaska oil field shutdown, but offered far different solutions on Monday.
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Touring the financially troubled Prince George's Hospital Center yesterday, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown said state leaders are committed to the facility's long-term survival but made no immediate offers of cash for the institution.
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The nation's governors sought help Thursday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control &#151; and governors less &#151; over the National Guard during disasters.
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State officials today urged people to stay where they were because of the possibility of flooding, but not everyone heeded the warning.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 25--Nothing subtle about the message screamed out this summer by the Chesapeake Bay.   Major beaches closed to protect swimmers from bacterial infections. Widespread reports of sick, dying and even deformed fish.
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New York Gov. George Pataki implores businesses to relocate to lower Manhattan in a taxpayer-funded ad campaign. In Maryland, Gov. Robert Ehrlich pitches tourism, energy-efficient homes and the state motor vehicle administration.
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STERLING, Va. The National Weather Service says public warnings in advance of Hurricane Isabel as it approached Virginia and Maryland last fall -- failed to include information important to homeowners and businesses in coastal areas.