COAL ASH WASTE CONCERNS TRIGGER LEGAL ACTION IN PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY: 4 MAJOR GROUPS TO SUE MIRANT FOR POLLUTION VIOLATIONS Investigation Reveals Toxic Pollution from Coal Ash Dump Near Wildlife Refuge WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 19, 2009 – Due to serious concerns about toxic pollution discharged from an unlined coal ash waste dump in suburban…

Environmental Groups Ask Federal Agency to Oversee Clean Water Act in the State Baltimore, MD — December 7, 2009 – Waterkeepers Chesapeake of Maryland and Waterkeeper Alliance (collectively "Waterkeepers") today filed a detailed, 58 page petition seeking major changes in the way Maryland operates and enforces the Clean Water Act in order to better protect…

  Patuxent 20/20 Policy Report: This report was over a year in the making, is heavily cited to authoritative sources and provides a blueprint or policies, initiatives and strategies than can be implemented in all sectors of the Patuxent Watershed to protect water quality sustainably.  

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…