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Opinion: Oyster farmers of the Chesapeake Bay breathe hopeful sigh of relief after Conowingo Dam decision
By Scott Budden The writer is a partner at Orchard Point Oyster Co. and an Eastern Shore native. He currently serves on the boards of the Oyster Recovery Partnership, Maryland Sea Grant, Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Chesapeake Oyster Alliance, and is treasurer of ShoreRivers. He is also a gubernatorial appointee to the Maryland Tidal Fish Advisory Commission and Maryland Aquaculture Coordinating Council. Published in Maryland Matters, ...
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Big opportunity at the Conowingo Dam | GUEST COMMENTARY
By Ridge Hall Posted in The Baltimore Sun, Feb 15, 2023 In a tremendous win for the Chesapeake Bay watermen, and downstream residents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently issued a ruling vacating the issuance by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of a 50-year license to Constellation Energy (formerly Exelon) to continue operating the Conowingo Dam hydroelectric power facility. The judges ...
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Maryland Department of the Environment Says It Needs More Staff to Do What the Law Requires
Maryland Department of the Environment Says It Needs More Staff to Do What the Law Requires “We need an agency that’s focused on holding polluters accountable. And right now because they’re not inspecting and enforcing is allowing these violations not only to go on for a long time but to continue to get worse,” said Betsy Nicholas, executive director of Waterkeepers Chesapeake, an environmental nonprofit ...
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Advocates seek Hogan administration to do more to clean up Chesapeake Bay
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/advocates-call-on-governor-to-do-more-to-clean-up-chesapeake-bay/41695538# “Unfortunately, our water-quality monitoring data in Baltimore … has been showing us that we’re really seeing a decline in overall water health as we move forward, and so not only are we not going to meet that deadline, we need to double down on our clean water efforts if we have a chance turning this thing around,” said Blue Water Baltimore’s harbor waterkeeper, Alice ...
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Md. Inaction Can’t Spur Dam Relicensing, DC Circ. Told – Law360.com
Md. Inaction Can’t Spur Dam Relicensing, DC Circ. Told, Law360.com, May 26, 2022, by Keith Goldberg The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can’t relicense an Exelon Corp. hydroelectric dam based on Maryland’s waiver of its authority to issue a water quality certificate for the project, environmentalists told the D.C. Circuit on Monday. FERC has defended its issuance of a new 50-year license to the 570-megawatt Conowingo ...
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