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.
Arkansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Wyoming, Maryland, and Massachusetts have enough wind energy currently under construction that it will more than double their capacity upon completion.
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.
The bill signed Thursday gives businesses 18 months to stop using containers made from this material, commonly called Styrofoam.
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.
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.
