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| 2009-10-21 | |
| Industrial facilities dumped more than two million pounds of toxic chemicals into Maryland’s waterways in 2007. Toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states. Maryland’s Curtis Bay ranked in the top 50 waterways for total toxic discharges in 2007 with over 1.5 million pounds of pollution. Industry in the United States should use safer alternatives to these toxic chemicals, and the federal government should restore the Clean Water Act to protect all waterways. | |
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| 2009-09-16 | |
| More than 25 years since the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of December 1983 created a region-wide partnership "to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay," the bay's water quality has not improved, and communities that rely on a clean, sustainable bay are paying a high price for the lack of progress. | |
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| 2008-02-27 | |
| With weak enforcement mechanisms, broad loopholes, and 64 separate jurisdictions implementing their own standards, the Critical Area Act has failed to stopa many irresponsible developments that continue to threaten the health of the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and Maryland's Atlantic coastal bays. This report highlights seven case studies of harmful development allowed by deficiencies in the current law. | |
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| 2007-10-12 | |
| Using information provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, this report analyzes all major facilities that exceeded their Clean Water Act permits between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005; reveals the type of pollutants they are discharging into our waterways; and details the extent to which these facilities are exceeding their permit levels. More than two decades after the drafters of the 1972 Clean Water Act intended for the discharge of all pollutants to be eliminated, facilities across the country continue to violate pollution limits, at times egregiously. | |
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| 2006-03-23 | |
| More than 42 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Maryland discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow between July 2003 and December 2004, according to a new report. | |
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| 2005-11-28 | |
| Year after year the Chesapeake Bay is inundated with nutrient pollution as millions of pounds of nitrogen and phosphorous flow into its tributaries from the land and fall into its waters from the air. | |
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| 2004-03-30 | |
| More than 46 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Maryland exceeded their Clean Water Act permit limits between January 2002 and June 2003, according to a new report released today by the MaryPIRG Foundation. | |
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| 2002-01-08 | |
| Thousands of Maryland women are at risk of having pregnancies end in miscarriage or of having children with birth defects because of chemical byproducts that occur in drinking water as a result of chlorination, according to a report released today by MaryPIRG. | |
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