Clean Water Act

With that settlement, the city will also enter into a consent decree that includes a timeline for repairs and upgrades at both the Patapsco and Back River wastewater treatment facilities.

The Maryland Department of the Environment announced a proposed civil penalty settlement with ABF Freight System, which operates a trucking hub near Bascom Creek in Howard County and seeks public comment about the proposed deal.

Maryland fell short of its water clean up goals, a task that’s more difficult when polluters don’t take the state penalties for breaking the rules seriously, Chesapeake Bay advocates said on the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act.

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.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, three bay states and the District of Columbia sued the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, charging it has failed to…