Anne Arundel lawmakers pass some bills, push on others as 2021 Maryland General Assembly starts final week
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Anne Arundel lawmakers pass some bills, push on others as 2021 Maryland General Assembly starts final week
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Valley Proteins is a chicken rendering plant located east of Cambridge, MD. Dave Harp
Maryland regulators want to give nearly $13 million to a private company to help it clean up nutrient pollution from an Eastern Shore chicken rendering plant it owns that has a history of discharge violations.
Officials with the Maryland Department of the Environment say the grant to Valley Proteins, Inc., will help it achieve an extraordinary level of wastewater treatment for such a facility and improve the health of the Transquaking River, a 23-mile-long Chesapeake Bay tributary into which the plant discharges. The river has been classified since 1996 as impaired by nutrients.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) The Maryland Senate voted Friday for a package of steps to fight climate change by planting 5 million trees over 10 years, increasing energy-efficient buildings and committing to more electric state vehicle use.
The measure would require the Maryland Department of the Environment to plan to increase the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals from 40% of 2006 levels by 2030 to 60%. It also would require the state to achieve net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
Supporters described it as a far-reaching measure to address climate change in a state particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to its large number of tidal communities.