Posts by NLewis

Maryland Waterkeepers Settle Lawsuit Against Department of Environment Ensuring Better Protection for the Bay from Construction Sites (Baltimore MD)- Twelve Maryland Waterkeeper organizations and the Waterkeeper Alliance, represented by the University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic, have reached an agreement with the Maryland Department of the Environment ("MDE") resolving the Waterkeepers’ legal challenge to MDE’s…

A team up between the Patuxent Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has produced major gains for the Patuxent. For well over a decade the largest single source of industrial nutrient pollution on the Little Patuxent has been the MD, DC Virginia Dairy Producer’s Coop. This facility located in Howard County had a…

Eel Fishing on the Patuxent in the late 1950’s and 1960’s By Thomas Terry One of my favorite childhood pastimes was eel fishing on the Patuxent River on Mr. Vernon Arnold’s property. Mr. Arnold lived a couple of miles to the east of our farm along the road that went by the Entzian’s property and…

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Patuxent Riverkeeper has joined Anne Arundel citizens in a contested case hearing to oppose and overhaul a state issued wetlands permit. The permit would authorize the construction of a big-box store in Crofton near the intersection of Route #3 and the Patuxent River. Citizen opposition to this development has raged for over two years. Concerns…