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It is unclear why MDE is taking such a muscular enforcement stance now for stormwater pollution violations, though it gives us reason to be optimistic.

WHYY By Rachel McDevittMay 11, 2021 Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, March 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) This article originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania. — State lawmakers are asking the administrators of a regional cap-and-trade program to bar Pennsylvania’s entrance unless the legislature approves. But the nonprofit RGGI, Inc. doesn’t require legislative backing to admit a new state. All Republicans and one coal-region Democrat on the House E...

SportsUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Jim Fischer ThisWeek Orange Township residents will have to wait at least until early June to learn if a Sheetz store will be approved for a site at the southwest corner of U.S. Route 23 and Orange Road. Developers presented their initial site plan, which includes fuel pumps, a convenience store-restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating and a separate structure for a car wash. Vehicle access to the site would be from both Orange Road and southbound Rout...

Orange Township residents were given no reason why their township administrator was suspended last week, but emails from Administrator Andrew King, trustee chairman Ben Grumbles and others that were acquired by the Dispatch show ongoing conflict. King accused Grumbles of micromanaging, bullying and nepotism in documents from last month, among other leadership faults — all of which Grumbles denied. "I can refute the bulk of what is in there," Grumbles said of a March 24 email from King. ...

The Orange Township trustees voted 2-1 Monday night to suspend the township administrator, a 43-year-old former assistant prosecutor who previously had given legal advice to officials there and at other Delaware County entities. No reason was given for the suspension of Andrew King, who was appointed a year ago. He had been given a 3-month raise in July and good evaluations, officials in the township had said. "Im not going to give a reason right now," board chairman Ben Grumbles, who voted ...

SportsUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Jim Fischer Orange Township has hired Nathan McNeil as its new fire chief. A recently retired U.S. Air Force veteran, McNeil previously was deputy fire chief at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico and at Clear Air Station in Alaska. His 22-year active-duty military career included stations in Texas and Missouri, plus multiple deployments overseas. Township trustees approved his hiring April 5. “It’s not different at all,” McNeil said of military an...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. MPT presents 17th annual Chesapeake Bay Week® April 18 - 24 Maryland Public TelevisionApril 7, 2021 GMT OWINGS MILLS, MD, April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Maryland Public Television (MPT) will celebrate the Chesapeake Bay region once again this month with its 17th annual Chesapeake Bay Week ®, a slate of more than 30 documentaries and programs highlighting the beauty, importance, and fragility of ...

Chesapeake Bay groups have mixed reactions to the state putting the brakes on an oyster restoration project.

Concerned about infrastructure standards not keeping up with the reality of climate change, Sen. Sarah Elfreth has introduced a bill that calls for updating the data used to inform regulations and updating it every five years.

Students were just settling in on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University in Western Maryland when researchers wearing protective gear began scooping up weekly samples from the pipes outside their dorms. Before long, scientists, working with the local health team, had made a discovery from the toilet water: shed particles of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus. Without a single student getting a nose swab, public health officials knew that a student at the small, private university — ...