The Maryland General Assembly left a number of important environmental issues on the table when it adjourned in April, environmentalists said on Monday.

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Robert Santoni warned this would happen. He predicted the drop-off in sales. He forecast the job losses. He knew there would be unhappy customers.

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Legislation that would have imposed a refundable 5-cent fee on bottle and can purchases to encourage recycling was killed by a House of Delegates committee Monday.

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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to sign into law an increased bottle tax to renovate the city’s crumbling schools. Rawlings-Blake is scheduled to join schools CEO Andres Alonso and education advocates at Northwood Elementary School on Tuesday. She will sign ...

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A key committee of the Baltimore City Council voted Monday afternoon to send a proposed 3-cent increase in the city’s bottle tax to the full council for a vote this month. The Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee voted out ...

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More than 60 percent of city voters polled last month say they oppose an increase in the bottle tax proposed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as a means to help fund school construction, according to a new survey. The survey of ...

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If there ever was a good time to increase the bottle tax in the city of Baltimore, this is not it. The 2-cent-per-container levy was imposed in 2010 out of desperation by a municipal government searching for new revenue anywhere ...

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s plan to increase the container tax by three cents to help fund school construction will result in a new wave of job losses in Baltimore and also harm working families, according to a report released Friday by ...

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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has pledged to seek a three-cent increase in the bottle tax this year as a way to help raise $300 million to help fund school construction and renovations. In her first State of the City address ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The chief executive officer of Baltimore’s public schools has told state lawmakers that he hopes to borrow $1.2 billion to overhaul the city’s public school buildings. Andres Alonso spoke Tuesday to the Senate Budget and Taxation committee, telling ...

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