In Maryland, service station owners have three weeks to prove that their automatic leak detection systems are working. That was the order from state Environment Secretary Kendl Philbrick after an ExxonMobil station leaked 25,000 gallons of gasoline underground in Baltimore County last week. Philbrick vowed a stiff fine; we’ll see if it corresponds to the company’s record $25.3 billion in profits last year …

In Easton, the winds of March collaborate with local artists in a public art project to blow color into the dreary days of early spring. The Friday Morning Artists group has made 130 wind-supported banners to mount in Thompson Park on Dover and Washington streets. When the wind cooperates, the banners spin, spreading color every way the wind blows. See Coloring the Winds Of March from March 17 until April 1 …

In New York, the Statue of Liberty is the newest landmark to go green. The General Services Administration said last week that henceforth it would purchase the 27 million kilowatt hours needed to light Liberty from windmill farms in western New York …

In Virginia, the Department of Environmental Quality is finding mercury levels so high in channel catfish and several other species in the Shenandoah and South rivers that they shouldn’t be eaten. Of course, the authority of states to issue warnings about food is in jeopardy under a pro-food industry bill passed by the U.S. House this month that nullifies some 200 state laws governing food safety …

Our Creature Feature comes from St. Louis where the two-headed rat snake, We, can expect to stay put for the time being now that no bidder has come forth with the $150,000 asking price.

That was the price set by the World Aquarium at Internet auction for this odd creature. But only a zoo and an unnamed party wanted We, and for less than $50,000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. So the aquarium shifted to Plan B: a new, high-concept display that We can call home and an effort to find her (yes, We is a she) a mate in hopes of breeding wee We’s.