Montgomery County unlawfully denied stormwater management tax credits to property owners in a Gaithersburg business park because the development’s ponds for handling runoff were not located on their individual properties, the Maryland Tax Court’s chief judge ruled Wednesday. Walter C. ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand without comment a decision that the Maryland Department of the Environment can impose upon counties stormwater pollution-prevention standards more stringent than those called for under the federal Clean Water Act. The justices ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has shown an interest in hearing Carroll County’s argument that the Maryland Department of the Environment imposed upon the county stormwater pollution-prevention standards more stringent than those permitted under the federal Clean Water Act. The high ...

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The Maryland Department of the Environment imposed upon Carroll County stormwater pollution-prevention standards more stringent than those permitted under the federal Clean Water Act, the county is arguing in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn a decision ...

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The Maryland Department of the Environment validly imposed stormwater-protection standards on two counties more stringent than the counties’ population sizes would generally call for under the law and legitimately mandated that they reduce polluting discharges beyond “the maximum extent practicable,” ...

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In a defeat for environmentalists, Maryland’s top court has unanimously upheld the Maryland Department of the Environment’s pollution-prevention permitting process for stormwater control.

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Maryland’s top court received a tutorial Thursday in stormwater runoff as it considered a claim by environmentalists’ that a state agency’s pollution-prevention permit for Montgomery County was unlawfully vague.

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During its 2015-2016 term beginning Sept. 1, the Maryland Court of Appeals will hear the state’s request that the high court reinstate the first-degree murder and attempted murder convictions – and life sentence – of a man who remains charged with killing one and wounding another in a 2012 shooting outside an Eldersburg tavern.

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Maryland’s top court will dive into a long-running challenge to state stormwater-runoff regulations from environmentalists who claim the state permit governing Montgomery County is ill-defined, in violation of Maryland law.

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A recently renovated building sits atop a small hill in Sandtown-Winchester, surrounded on all four sides by foreclosed houses boarded up and decorated with graffiti. Sarah’s Hope, an emergency homeless shelter for families, reopened its doors to the local community ...

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