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Swimmable ShoreRivers bacteria testing program will return for the season beginning May 23, and weekly results from this annual program will once again be available this year in both English

A Dorchester County, Maryland, poultry rending facility will pay $540K in penalties and install upgrade to settlement on "repeated" pollution issues

Three local environmental groups say they plan to sue the owner of the Linkwood, Maryland, rendering facility over waste it discharges into the Transquaking River, a Chesapeake Bay tributary. The Dorchester County facility, owned by Winchester, Va.-based Valley Proteins, takes byproducts of the chicken industry — blood, feathers, heads and other body parts — and processes them into protein for animal food. Over the last five years, the facility has been cited for numerous "significant" ...

Environmental groups are asking that Valley Proteins, a Dorchester County plant that boils down chicken feathers, bones and fats to be used in animal feed and biofuels, be required to address pollution problems, and possibly pay a fine of more than $500 million for not complying with the law.

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