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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Environmental activists are calling on Maryland legislators to defeat efforts to repeal a controversial stormwater management fee, citing an increasing level of water pollution related to storm runoff.

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Republicans and Democrats alike appear to be lining up with legislation to alter and in some cases repeal the controversial stormwater pollution fee sometimes referred to as the “rain tax.”

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FREDERICK — The Maryland attorney general’s office is threatening to fine Carroll County up to $10,000 a day for failing to implement a fee on property owners to fight storm water pollution draining into the Chesapeake Bay. The state also ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The city of Hagerstown will not charge property owners a fee to help pay for a state-mandated stormwater remediation effort, but it is unclear how the city will contribute to the effort. The Herald-Mail reports that members of ...

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