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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 ...

Judge Rules Maryland Must Regulate Chicken Farm Air Pollution - Across Maryland, MD - A Maryland judge has dealt a blow to the state's poultry industry, ordering regulators to impose limits for the first time on air pollution.

The money going to Valley Proteins in Dorchester County comes from Maryland's Bay Restoration Fund, which gets its money from a “flush fee” paid by residents and has been used to upgrade public sewage treatment plants.

Maryland Department of Environment is threatening to drain Aspen Run pond in Hampstead unless residents fix the damages it’s causing to a dam, which would cost $150,000.

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