Baltimore Department of Public Works

Sewer rates would go up 15% and water by 3% in February under a plan before the board.

Maryland’s heat standard, which is nearly four years in the making, could have saved someone like Ronald Silver II, a Baltimore City sanitation worker who died of heat exhaustion on the job.

The rally went on despite extreme temperatures, organizers say that’s nothing compared to what sanitation workers experience on the back of a truck.

Unions call for hearings into workplace conditions, additional health and safety training, as well as a full-time OIG investigator dedicated to DPW.

The pause and training are a direct result of Ronald Silver II’s death, a solid waste worker who died on Friday while reportedly showing signs of heat stress.

DPW says all public communication plans have to be approved through state health and environmental departments under the federal consent decree.

This massive bill has accrued because, while the housing authority has been paying some of its water bill to the city it has not been paying them in full, staff from both the housing authority and the Department of Public Works told the inspector general’s office.

“You can go ahead and clean it, but it might be back there the next day.”

Two leading clean-water activists explain why the state has taken over one of the city's two long-faltering waste-treatment plants, and why they're a party to one of the several lawsuits filed against the city.

After 9 months at the helm of Baltimore's City's DPW, Jason Mitchell talks about how he's managing one of the city's toughest jobs.