Settlement aims to police Baltimore’s polluting sewage treatment plants – after city and state failed to
Blue Water Baltimore is hopeful a new consent decree will help finally fix two city-run facilities that remain troubled.
Environment
Oct 23, 2023
Tired of stormwater lapping at their front door, Baltimore residents join an environmental lawsuit
Blue Water Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation say the state must do more to control runoff, much of it from Baltimore County, that inundates city neighborhoods and pollutes the Bay.
Oct 18, 2023
City will speed up testing to get Druid and Ashburton drinking water tanks on line
Leak, pressure, turbidity and other tests will be squeezed into 9-13 days to meet the federal deadline, DPW director says.
Oct 17, 2023
South Baltimore medical waste incinerator hit with a $1.75 million state fine and penalty
Investigators describe trucks catching on fire and leaking fluid onto roadways, as Curtis Bay Energy pleads guilty to 40 medical waste violations.
Oct 11, 2023
Critics decry Baltimore “stream restoration” project they say would claim 700 trees
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others call on the Scott administration to halt a $5.5 million project on Herring Run’s Western Branch that will “do more harm than good.”
Special SeriesOct 3, 2023
Latest test shows no traces of cryptosporidium in the Druid Lake Reservoir
But amid concern after a previous sample came back positive, DPW is still advising imunocompromised people to drink only boiled or bottled water “out of an abundance of caution”
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