Environmentalists fear Md. transit spending won’t be green 

Posted: 7:07 pm Wed, May 11, 2011
By Nicholas Sohr
Daily Record Business Writer

Debate over pumping $800 million more into annual transportation spending has sparked concern among environmental groups that worry such an infusion, if unchecked, is a road to more sprawl, pollution runoff and greenhouse gases. Gov. Martin O’Malley has put the state’s transportation funding needs at the top of his agenda following the recently concluded legislative session. ...