Nearly 70 people attended MACo's Chesapeake Checkpoint Symposium on June 24, 2015, to hear updates about the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and discuss issues around the Municipal…
As previously reported on Conduit Street, various environmental groups have initiated lawsuits challenging the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase I Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits that…
As previously reported on Conduit Street, a coalition of environmental groups have legally challenged the Phase I Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits issued to several counties by the Maryland Department…
March 3 and 4, MACo Legal and Policy Counsel, Les Knapp, testified to the Senate Education, Health and Environment Affairs Committee and the House Environment and Transportation Committee to support with…
As previously reported on Conduit Street, legislation (SB 863) to repeal the 2012 stormwater remediation fee mandate placed on the 10 counties subject to a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)Phase…
MACo has taken a position on the proposed repeal of the 2012 legislation (HB 987) that required the 10 Maryland counties subject to a federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase I Municipal…
Governor Larry Hogan's nominee to be Maryland Secretary of the Environment, Benjamin Grumbles, addressed MACo's legislative committee on February 4. Grumbles laid out the environmental perspective of the Hogan…
A July 22, 2015, Montgomery County Circuit Court decision has called into question Montgomery County's stormwater remediation fee, also known as the Water Quality Protection Charge (WQPC). The case is Paul N.…
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