Different perspectives were offered on Maryland’s new Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) during the “Endgame: Can Our Phase III WIP Meet Our Bay Restoration Goals?” panel on August 16…
In a Bay Journal op-ed (2018-01-31), Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) Director of Communications Tom Pelton questioned whether nutrient pollution trading was hurting the Chesapeake's key waterways. Virginia and Pennsylvania have nutrient credit…
A Bay Journal article (2019-04-01) provided an in-depth analysis of the struggles county governments face in addressing pollution caused by stormwater runoff. All counties must achieve some level of stormwater runoff reduction…
A Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) news release (2017-10-11) announced the release of draft regulations that would establish a water quality nutrient credit trading program. The draft regulations culminate a…
Make sure you are up-to-date with the latest information about Phase I and Phase II Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits at the 2018 MACo Summer Conference. Surviving the…
Former Director of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection and Acting Deputy Administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lisa Feldt started on July 2 as the Chesapeake Bay…
A report finds that nutrient credit trading by Maryland counties is made less attractive by the State's regulatory framework. As described by the Bay Journal, Despite being touted as a less…
The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) has finalized its water quality nutrient trading regulations after several years of work. The regulations took effect on July 16, 2018. MACo believes…
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