Baltimore Port Businesses Looking To Cut Pollution
Officials at the Port of Baltimore say they are working to keep pollution out of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Officials at the Port of Baltimore say they are working to keep pollution out of the Chesapeake Bay.
A Liberian ship is fined millions of dollars for illegally dumping waste oil at sea.
Federal prosecutors say a Liberian-registered shipping company was ordered by a Baltimore judge to pay $2.4 million for falsifying records about oil waste from a ship.
Wish lists in Annapolis are nothing new, but in the case of the bay, some wishes are finally coming true.
Maryland environmental officials have approved a coal ash landfill with pollution controls to address concerns about power plant waste contaminating nearby areas.
A pollution case involving a former zinc-smelter site in West Virginia has been resolved with DuPont agreeing to pay $70 million plus fund a medical monitoring program for area residents.
Maryland's new plan for speeding up cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay would cost $10 billion or more for pollution reduction measures.
