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By Josh Kurtz June 2, 2023 Maryland environmental officials are restarting a controversial permitting process that would eventually enable Constellation Energy to continue operating the Conowingo Dam for another half century. The future of the dam along the Susquehanna River, considered a significant source of Chesapeake Bay pollution, has been the object of regulatory wrangling and…

Office of Senator Chris Van Hollen, April 4, 2023 Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Andy Harris, M.D., Jamie Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all Md.) wrote to Maryland Secretary of the Environment Serena McIlwain urging the Department of the…

Inside Climate News – By Aman Azhar – February 3, 2023 – Original source available here Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday he is committed to filling vacancies as quickly as possible at the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), the state’s troubled regulator of drinking water and wastewater treatment, which has been plagued by staff…

By Josh Kurtz, February 2nd 2023 – Maryland Matters You can also read article here Tracking the health of the Chesapeake Bay is a massive undertaking. It involves multiple agencies in federal, state and local governments monitoring the health of the air, land and water, of trees, vegetation and aquatic life. Measuring Bay health can…

By Timothy B Wheeler – Bay Journal, Feb 6th, 2023Article also available here Maryland state regulators have approved expansion of a controversial poultry rendering plant on the Eastern Shore that just four months ago settled lawsuits accusing it of polluting a Chesapeake Bay tributary for years. The state Department of the Environment in late December…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court invalidated a federal license for the Conowingo Dam in Maryland on Tuesday, sending it back to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for further proceedings.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed with environmental groups that FERC exceeded its authority when it approved a…

Michael Sanderson – December 21 A federal court decision, in a case brought by multiple environmentally-focused stakeholder groups, has invalidated the 50 year federal license extension granted to Constellation Energy to operate the Conowingo Dam. A major announcement last year on terms underpinning a generational extension of the federal operating license for Constellation’s hydroelectric dam…

Baltimore Sun – By Christine Condon – Nov 21 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has rejected Pennsylvania’s latest plan for reducing its pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, finding it falls well short of the state’s commitment. The agency forced Pennsylvania to resubmit its plan last year, warning that its first try…

NOVEMBER 21, 2022 – State Impact – Photo by Ian Sterling Pa. Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan falls short for third time, EPA says Pennsylvania is still falling short in its efforts to reduce pollution flowing to the Chesapeake Bay, in spite of budgeting millions in new money for clean-up. The federal government says it will…

The Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island Ecosystem Restoration Project – commonly known as Mid-Bay Island – is located in Dorchester County near what remains of James and Barren islands. It is a crucial future placement site for the DMMP, and is integral to the Port’s strategy for managing the nearly two million cubic yards of sediment that…