Hogan says that's fine with him -- as long as stormwater fee is junked.
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Read More »March 10, 2015 Comments Off on Miller’s bill is last ‘rain tax’ repeal measure standing
Hogan says that's fine with him -- as long as stormwater fee is junked.
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Read More »March 6, 2015 Comments Off on Committee kills bills repealing ‘rain tax’
The House Environment and Transportation Committee voted 14-7 along party lines to reject Gov.Larry Hogan's proposal and another essentially identical bill.
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Read More »March 3, 2015 Comments Off on Md. ‘rain tax’ repeal bills face scrutiny
Three bills, including a proposal by Gov. Larry Hogan, seeking to repeal a controversial stormwater fee faced tough questions by members of a Senate committee, many of whom voted to pass the three-year-old law.
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Read More »February 25, 2015 1 Comment
Two weeks after Gov. Larry Hogan rolled out legislation to repeal the so-called rain tax, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller JR. offered a competing bill.
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Read More »January 30, 2015 Comments Off on Frosh pledges environmental enforcement, cross-border approach on DelMarVa
“Feeding operations have to follow the law,” Frosh said. But without the cooperation of the two other states on the DelMarVa peninsula, Maryland farmers can “move the farm five miles away” to a different state.
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Read More »January 19, 2015 Comments Off on Counties eye ‘rain tax’ adjustments
Baltimore County was the first the jurisdiction to announce it planned to revamp its stormwater remediation fees system, but it isn’t the only jurisdiction looking to make adjustments.
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Read More »January 16, 2015 Comments Off on Baltimore County plans to slash ‘rain tax’ fees
Baltimore County plans to reduce the rates it charges homeowners and commercial properties as part of Maryland's efforts to comply with an EPA consent decree.
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Read More »December 14, 2014 Comments Off on Old environmental issues for a new Md. legislative session
A new governor and a fresh crop of legislators — more than a third of the 188 senators and delegates will be new — will debate environmental issues that preceded many of them.
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Read More »December 2, 2014 Comments Off on Miller: No massive tax rollbacks expected
The Senate president said he is optimistic that there will be a good working relationship between Republican Gov.-Elect Larry Hogan and the General Assembly.
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Read More »November 11, 2014 Comments Off on Citing will of voters, Democratic senator urges repeal of ‘rain tax’
One Baltimore County state senator is calling for the repeal of Maryland’s two-year old stormwater management fee and drawing the ire of an environmental group who endorsed him.
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