Issues Facing Maryland

James Bowers

Actions Your Local Elected Officials Should Take for Clean Water

Sharing your concerns with candidates and elected officials is important for advocating for a clean Bay. Here are five key actions they can take for clean water.

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Agricultural Cost-Share in Maryland

Agricultural cost-share programs provide farmers with funding that defrays the expense of installing conservation practices.

Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program

Baltimore's Wastewater Treatment Plants

Maryland’s two largest wastewater treatment plants have not been working as designed since at least spring of 2021, resulting in an unknown amount of excess pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay.

Eliot Malumuth

Conowingo Dam

A solution is needed to address pollution above and below Conowingo Dam.

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Phosphorus Management

Maryland needs a science-based method to identify areas most at risk for phosphorus pollution.

Kathy Bosin

Roadside Ditch Retrofits

Since 2013, the Talbot County Ditch Retrofit Project has been working on an innovative program that will help the county achieve an estimated 17 percent of its urban nitrogen pollution goal.