The first farmer in the U.S. to sequester carbon for cash in private marketplace earns $115k
Trey Hill’s Maryland farm of 10,000 acres sold its carbon credits for $16.50 per ton through a Seattle-based startup called Nori.
Maryland
Maryland sits at the mid-Atlantic crossroads of urban innovation and Chesapeake Bay conservation. This archive tracks the state’s progress stories — from environmental restoration and public health advances to community-led economic development.
New research suggests MDMA lets PTSD victims form new bonds and memories to overcome trauma
Research from Johns Hopkins University finds that MDMA seems to re-open a window of opportunity for social bonding and rewiring trauma-related faulty connections in the brain.
Maryland becomes the sixth U.S. state to raise the minimum wage to $15
Lawmakers managed to override Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a minimum wage bill. Maryland’s current minimum wage is $10.10, and the new policy will gradually raise the wage floor to $15 by 2025.
Maryland becomes 11th state to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’ for minors
Maryland Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan, a Republican, signed the Youth Mental Health Protection Act into law on Tuesday, making the state the 11th to ban gay conversion therapy for minors.
Rachel Carson’s sea trilogy completes, sparking a marine conservation movement
Rachel Carson’s sea trilogy, completed with The Edge of the Sea in 1955, taught mid-century readers to see the ocean as a living, interconnected world. The Sea Around Us alone spent 86 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Years before Silent Spring, Carson was quietly building the audience that would make modern environmentalism possible.
An interracial coalition founds the NAACP to advance Black civil rights in America
The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, Lincoln’s 100th birthday, when more than 60 activists, journalists, and scholars gathered in New York after the Springfield race riot shook the nation. Black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells joined white allies in an interracial coalition, building a legal and organizing model that would shape civil rights work for over a century.