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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Chesapeake Bay News for Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Bay News for Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Crofton Elementary students’ art helps save the bay
The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital Gazette
http://ow.ly/knhVd

UMES acquires farm for research facility
The (Salisbury, Md.) Daily Times
http://ow.ly/knhYH

Chesapeake Spring's Most Savory Species
Southern Maryland Headline News
http://ow.ly/kni1D

Still Just a Bill?
The (Baltimore, Md.) City Paper
http://ow.ly/kni4z

Chesapeake Bay Foundation explains Maryland ‘Rain Tax’
Newsnet 14
http://ow.ly/kni80

Maryland looks for ideas to restore streams
WTOP (Washington, D.C.) 103.5 FM
http://ow.ly/knicn

Opinion: American farmers are under-appreciated
The (Salisbury, Md.) Daily Times
http://ow.ly/knieC

Editorial: Stormwater fee set low in Harford the best of a bad situation
The Baltimore (Md.) Sun
http://ow.ly/knihf

Blog: Source of organic matter affects Bay water quality
e! Science News
http://ow.ly/knijr

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Farm pollution lawsuit spurs public relations battle

Poultry industry, environmental groups fund lawyers for national bellwether

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-chicken-farmer-campaign-20120319,0,1037150,full.story

Labels: Ag, Ag and the Chesapeake Bay, Ag Environmentalism, Ag Save Farm Families, Chesapeake Bay, Enviro Waterkeeper Alliance, Environmentalism, MD co Eastern Shore Delmarva

By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun

March 19, 2012

With a catch in her throat, Kristin Hudson talks in a video posted online about her young daughter asking if "they" will take away her daddy's farm.

The video, featured on SaveFarmFamilies.org rallied farmers and others across the country to the side of an Eastern Shore farm couple fighting an environmental group's lawsuit alleging that the farm polluted a Chesapeake Bay tributary.

The Web-based organization has raised more than $200,000 to date from Perdue Farms, agricultural groups and other farmers to help Alan and Kristin Hudson pay legal bills in the 2-year-old case, according to one of the group's leaders. Meanwhile, two Maryland foundations with environmental agendas have poured a comparable amount into supporting the suit filed by the Waterkeepers Alliance… http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-chicken-farmer-campaign-20120319,0,1037150,full.story

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Drowning Boaters with Weighty Fees

Boaters, anglers and working watermen will soon be hit with a more than tripling of boat registration fees.

The House Environmental Matters Committee is hearing an Administration-sponsored bill today that drastically increases the current $24 bi-annual flat fee to $50 -$350, depending on the boat length.

The recreational boating industry has been hit hard in the recession, and boat sales have plummeted. The DNR says the money in the Waterway Improvement Fund, which is paid for by the boat excise tax, has been depleted. This fund is used for dredging and maintaining channels.

But, O'Malley has pilfered $40 million dollars from the fund over the years to help balance the budget. Some of the funds have been replaced with bonds, but that means the state is using its credit card instead of paying cash for the waterway projects.

Boaters who fill up their tanks dockside are paying the gas tax on each gallon they pump. That tax goes to mass transit and roads in the state, but should be used for channel improvements.

There's a misconception that boaters will somehow absorb the fees, but this proposal will result in diminished returns with fewer boat slip rentals, fewer boat sales, and less maintenance and repair work for our working marinas.

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Friday, January 06, 2012

Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family on February 18, 2012

When: Saturday, February 18, 2012

Time: 3:00pm until 8:00pm

At Queen Anne's County 4-H Park; Centreville, MD

The Hudson Family of Berlin, Maryland is being sued by the New York based Waterkeeper Alliance. They operate a poultry and beef farm in Worcester County, Maryland. 100% of the funds raised will go to help the Hudson family pay their legal bills. This event is sponsored by the Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot County Farm Bureaus.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/SaveFarmFamiliesorg/169007433178617?sk=info

Our goal is simple: Stand up and protect struggling farm families from bankruptcy triggered by extremist groups and their lawsuits.

For more than two centuries, family farms have been critical to the Maryland economy and the state’s way of life. Many of us are the sons and daughters of men and women who farmed, fished and raised their families in every corner of the Free State.

The Maryland Family Farmers Legal Defense Fund, Inc. was created to help Alan and Kristin Hudson, who run a family farm located near Maryland’s Eastern Shore, pay their mounting legal bills and to call attention to the threat that radical groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance pose to every family farm in America. Unless we stop them in the courtroom, Maryland’s largest industry, responsible for 14 percent of the state’s workforce, could disappear forever.

Website http://www.SaveFarmFamilies.org

[20120218 Save Farm Families Fundraiser]

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Chesapeake Bay News for Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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Bay News for Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Chesapeake Bay crabs not overfished, but managers should keep close eye on 2011 harvest

Associated Press

http://ow.ly/85f2e

Expansion of summer programs for gifted students

Baltimore (Md.) Sun

http://ow.ly/85fpd

State’s bay cleanup plan to EPA concerns clean water advocates

Cumberland (Md.) Times-News

http://ow.ly/85f5T

Blue crab population rebounds at Chesapeake Bay

FishNewsEu

http://ow.ly/85fac

Bion Announces Kreider Farms Project Sampling Results

Sacramento (Ca.) Bee

http://ow.ly/85fgG

Delmar’s State-of-the-Art Wastewater Facility to be Unveiled today

WGMD (Md.) Radio

http://ow.ly/85fFd

Opinion: Nick Maravell’s farm isn’t just any Montgomery farm

Washington Post

http://ow.ly/85fQW

Opinion: We all pay for Bay cleanup in some way

Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

http://ow.ly/85g4j

Opinion: Managing fertilizer use efficiently

Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times

http://ow.ly/85fCb

Opinion: Success On Mattawoman Creek

American Rivers Blog

http://ow.ly/85flS

Blog: Photo of the Week: Santa's Reindeer and the Surfer

Bay Daily

http://ow.ly/85fYy

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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Chesapeake Bay Program News for Wednesday, March 9 2011

Bay News for Wednesday, March 9 2011

Bay News for Wednesday, March 9 2011

Senate passes bill to reduce phosphorus in commercial dishwashing detergent

The Associated Press

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/23f562c174d549539c98d0a81206a08f/MD-XGR--Commercial-Dishwashing/

EPA asks Pa. to boost monitoring of gas well waste

The Associated Press

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9LR9UUG1.htm

Maryland lawmakers eye lawn fertilizer limits

The Baltimore Sun

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-03-08/features/bs-gr-lawn-fertilizer-bills-20110308_1_lawn-fertilizer-bay-cleanup-homeowners

Capito gathers with students, local leaders

The Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-capito-gathers-with-students-local-leaders-20110308,0,6950001.story

O'Malley offers septic compromise

The Delmarva Daily Times

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110308/NEWS01/103080376/-1/VIDEONETWORK/O-Malley-offers-septic-compromise?odyssey=nav|head

Plant More Plants

Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/green-policy-in-arlington/plant-more-plants

VA's Family Farms Left Holding the...Manure?

Public News Service

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/18857-1

Soft red winter wheat growing in popularity

Southeast Farm Press

http://southeastfarmpress.com/grains/soft-red-winter-wheat-growing-popularity?page=2

Opinion: Not quite in the bag

The Gazette (Md.)

http://www.gazette.net/stories/03092011/montedi184118_32534.php

Blog: Septic stunt - O'Malley to wade in polluted Shore lake

The Baltimore Sun

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/green/2011/03/septic_stunt_omalley_to_wade_i.html

Blog: Gibby's nightmare

The Baltimore Sun

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/outdoors/blog/2011/03/gibbys_nightmare.html

Blog: VA, MD working to reduce hurdles to oyster aquaculture

The Bay Journal

http://cbpo.chesapeakebay.net/baynews/AddArticle.aspx

Blog: Website lets Bay residents calculate their nitrogen footprint

The Bay Journal

http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4034

Blog: Streamside forests critical to wildlife, water quality

The Bay Journal

http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4045

Blog: Matt Ehrhart, CBF, Appointed To Marcellus Shale Commission

NorthcentralPA.com

http://www.northcentralpa.com/feeditem/2011-03-08_matt-ehrhart-cbf-appointed-marcellus-shale-commission

Blog: ChesapeakeView: Everything you need to know about the bay

Science Blog

http://scienceblog.com/43499/chesapeakeview-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bay/

Chesapeake Bay Program News for Wednesday, March 9 2011

Labels: Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Program News
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical

http://chesapeakebay.umd.edu/index.php?q=article/scientists-warn-smith-islands-demise-residents-are-skeptical

Article | 04.20.10

Waterways thread through the land near Ewell, one of the three towns on Smith Island. Water has crept closer to the town as it erodes the island's shores. (Photo by Ben Giles)

By Ben Giles
Maryland Newsline

SMITH ISLAND, Md. - Capt. Larry Laird ferries passengers and cargo to and from Smith Island twice a day, each time navigating the narrow channel that grants passage to his boat through the shallow Chesapeake Bay waters.

A wrong turn to the left or right, and he’ll run his vessel aground.

Shallow waters are part of daily life on Smith Island, the last inhabited island on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay that has no roads connecting it to the mainland. For generations, the water has been the source of the island residents’ livelihood, providing crab in one season and oyster in another.

But now, erosion and rising sea levels in the Chesapeake threaten the island’s existence.

“In the worst-case scenarios, Smith Island could be gone in, let’s say by 2025, 2030 or so,” said Raghu Murtugudde, professor at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center...

http://chesapeakebay.umd.edu/index.php?q=article/scientists-warn-smith-islands-demise-residents-are-skeptical

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/08/scientists-warn-of-smith-islands-demise.html

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Saturday, April 03, 2010

Maryland Senate GOP Slate: Offshore Drilling Now Part of MD's Energy Plan

Offshore Drilling Now Part of MD's Energy Plan

Maryland Senate GOP Slate's Notes

In a classic “but I was against it before I was for it” moment, Governor Martin O’Malley stood with President Barack Obama in support of the decision to open the mid-Atlantic region to offshore drilling.
Maryland's environmental community is steamed. Offshore drilling off the coasts of Maryland and Virginia has been a long-standing bugaboo for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and related organizations.

In a scorching press release, CBF President Will Baker said: "Offshore drilling creates a new pollution source, one capable of significant, even devastating environmental damage from drilling, transportation, storage, or refinement. Taken together, the totality of the potential harm is too great a risk for the Chesapeake Bay, which EPA already officially lists as impaired." To see the full press release: http://www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=1751

According to the Washington Post, the O’Malley spin machine began to backtrack immediately after the appearance with Obama. Oh, O’Malley only knew a few hours ahead of the press conference what the topic was. Oh, even though O’Malley stood with Obama, his real position is “neutral.” For more on the backtracking, see John Wagner’s report in First Click, Maryland: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2010/04/first_click_maryland_--_1.html

In January, the Maryland League of Conservation Voters gave O’Malley a 2010 endorsement even before they knew who the candidates would be in the primary and general elections. Perhaps they learned a lesson and will refrain from early endorsements in the future? Or perhaps not?

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Friday, November 02, 2007

20071102 MLIS: House Bill 23 Maryland Green Fund

MLIS: House Bill 23 Maryland Green Fund

HOUSE BILL 23

File Code: Natural Resources - Generally

Sponsored By:

Delegates McIntosh, V. Clagett, Frush, Lafferty, Lawton, Niemann, and Stein

Entitled:

Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays - Maryland Green Fund

Synopsis:

Establishing the Maryland Green Fund as a special, continuing, nonlapsing fund beginning on January 1, 2009; providing for the uses of the Fund; establishing a statewide impervious surface fee for specified types of property; providing for the assessment and collection of the fee for deposit into the Fund; providing for the calculation, administration, and distribution of the fee; etc.

History by Legislative and Calendar Date

House Action

10/29

First Reading Environmental Matters

10/31

Hearing 11/2 at 11:00 a.m.

Senate Action

No Action

Sponsored by:

Delegate Maggie McIntosh, District 43

Delegate Virginia P. Clagett, District 30

Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21