A now-closed paper mill being sued by the Maryland Department of the Environment is now also facing a citizen suit from a clean water nonprofit that is seeking to force the mill’s owners to take steps to clean up the ...

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HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — A freight train derailed as it crossed the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, sending two cars into the water and damaging a footbridge that is part of the Appalachian Trail. CSX said in a ...

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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The former owner of a West Virginia water treatment plant has admitted to discharging untreated sewage into the Potomac River.

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Dozens of people gathered outside of a National Park Service office in Maryland in a push to stop construction of a pipeline under the Potomac River.

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Columbia Gas Transmission is asking federal regulators for permission to start building a natural gas pipeline that would run through part of western Maryland and cross under the Potomac River near Hancock.

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Clean-water activists in Maryland say drinking water could be polluted by a planned pipeline that would carry natural gas under the Potomac River and C & O Canal.

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Maryland environmental regulators are holding a hearing on whether to award a permit for a pipeline that would carry natural gas under the Potomac River.

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ROCKVILLE — A statue of a Confederate cavalryman has been removed from outside the Rockville Courthouse in Maryland and placed near a privately run Potomac River ferry named for a Confederate general. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett tells local media ...

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WASHINGTON — Kayakers, paddleboarders and other active groups can continue to use the Potomac River near a Virginia golf course owned by President Donald Trump, the commandant of the Coast Guard said Tuesday. The Coast Guard has been closing a ...

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ROCKVILLE — The Montgomery County Council has voted unanimously to oppose a new Potomac River bridge crossing. The council voted 9-0 for a resolution against the idea on Tuesday in Rockville. The proposed project would include extending Route 28 in ...

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