An environmental group’s study has found that Maryland officials significantly underestimated how much carbon dioxide and methane leaked from municipal landfills over the last 15 years.
State Roundup: Cardin says U.S. must improve equity with investments into small businesses
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CARDIN: WE MUST DO BETTER ON SMALL BIZ INVESTMENT: U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., Wednesday emphasized the need to ensure that money from a federal program that provides financing to promising small businesses is more equitably distributed to entrepreneurs in underserved communities throughout the nation, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter.
SHORE RESIDENTS URGE STATE TO ADOPT SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS: Eastern Shore residents urged the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission to adopt single-member legislative districts at a virtual hearing Wednesday evening, with some charging that the state’s current hybrid model is unfair for voters, Bennett Leckrone reports for Maryland Matters.
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A simple arithmetic error, among other lapses, led Maryland to underestimate the amount of methane leaking from its landfills, an environmentalist group found. The analysis, conducted by the Environmental Integrity Project, found that 51,500 tons of the greenhouse gas had escaped into the atmosphere, four times the 12,500 tons estimated by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). T