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June 10, 2022, Department of the Environment *We will be reviewing the agreement and Consent Order below and monitor the enforcement thereof. BALTIMORE (June 10, 2022) – The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and Baltimore City leadership have reached an agreement that charts a course for continued progress at the Back River Wastewater Treatment…

May 13, 2022, The Talbot Spy This 1900 photograph of the Washington Monument in Baltimore is from the Maryland Historical Society’s archives and is included in a Wikipedia article. This is no mistake. Please read on to see the many-faceted connection between the Washington Monument and Belvedere Shoals.The United States Coast Guard, out of its…

May 10, 2022 – Maryland Matters Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced on Monday that Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Environment Horacio Tablada will succeed current Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles starting June 1. Grumbles is leaving to become executive director of the Environmental Council of the States, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan association…

May 9, 2022 – Maryland Department of the Environment ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today announced the appointment of Horacio Tablada as secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Tablada currently serves as deputy secretary of the Department of the Environment. He has more than three decades of experience as an environmental leader in Maryland, with…

EPA said it will put a stricter compliance focus on all water pollution sources in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania’s plan for cutting pollution to the Chesapeake Bay has been deemed inadequate by the U.S. EPA. According to The Post-Gazette, the EPA will be continuing its inspection and enforcement of water pollution sources across the state. The state’s plan…

Photo by: Will Parson The Federal Highway Administration has given preliminary approval to Maryland’s plans build to a new Chesapeake Bay bridge near the existing two spans that cross between Annapolis and Kent Island. The agency’s “record of decision” sides with the Maryland Transportation Authority preference for the crossing’s location. Before settling on the final…

Read article here: Bay Journal, April 22, 2022

Maryland Matters, April 18, 2022

Maryland Matters, April 19, 2022 https://www.theepochtimes.com/stuck-container-ship-in-chesapeake-bay-finally-refloated_4410724.html