(AP) The city of Hagerstown is going ahead with a plan to clean up and demolish an old electrical plant tainted with toxic chemicals on the bank of Antietam Creek. The Herald-Mail reported that the City Council unanimously approved a ...

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(AP) The city of Hagerstown is close to an agreement for cleaning up and demolishing an old electric plant filled with toxic PCBs and asbestos. The Herald-Mail reported in its Wednesday edition that the city would pay the owner of ...

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We often don’t take advantage of an extremely powerful and simple yet elusive principle: build your life and your business around positive people and don’t make room for the toxic ones. I see this over and over again. This is ...

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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says it hasn’t decided whether to appeal a federal judge’s approval of an agreement between the owners of the Sparrows Point steel plant and environmental regulators over monitoring of the site for toxic contaminants. U.S. District ...

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A new report says industrial facilities dumped 1.4 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Maryland waterways in 2010, mostly in the Baltimore area. The report was released Thursday by Environment Maryland, which said it obtained the figures from Environmental Protection ...

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CUMBERLAND — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a stream affected by a Superfund site near Cumberland is healthy but not vibrant more than 15 years after the pollution source was capped. The Cumberland Times-News reported Monday that remedial project ...

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