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Maryland ignored the harm ammonia inflicts upon the Chesapeake by not imposing emissions standards on all poultry operations, a lawyer told the top state court.

The Court of Appeals heard the Assateague Coastal Trust’s argument that the state should be required to regulate airborne ammonia gas as a mandatory part of water pollution permitting for

Top court opens term in which it will weigh if alleged racially charged comments so permeated a court opinion that a Black convict deserves a new hearing.

East of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, more than 2,000 chicken houses form one of the densest congregations of their kind in the country. The state has enacted some of the nation’s toughest water-quality regulations to prevent the $2.7 billion industry from polluting the Bay and its tributaries. But state and federal regulations for large animal operations allow them to pollute the air without limits or penalties. The result: Those chicken complexes unleash millions of pounds of ammonia i...