Baltimore has a higher rate of premature deaths from air pollution than any other city in the country

Chesapeake Chapter has co-signed a letter to Governor O'Malley asking the state to take greater protections to address air quality problems caused by coal-fired power plants in the Baltimore area.

Chesapeake Chapter has submitted comments to the state on the draft Best Management Practices for hydraulic fracturing. We were highly critical of the state’s decision to establish best practices before conducting studies of hydraulic fracturing’s possible impacts on Marylanders’ health and of the proposed imposition of a "medical gag rule" in Maryland.

Baltimore, Maryland

This is the first in our new series, Public Health and Climate Change. Learn how two local coal-fired power plants -- Charles P. Crane and Herbert A. Wagner -- contribute to global warming and respiratory illness and what we can do to shut them down.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Featuring speakers Brian Corr, Ira Helfand MD, and Pat Scanlon. Co-sponsored by GBPSR.

Baltimore, Maryland

Implications for human health and health policy, featuring speakers Yousef Zarbalian, MD and Timothy P. Whitehouse, JD.