Environmental advocates urge stronger action to reduce polluted runoff from Maryland highways

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Environmental advocates urge stronger action to reduce polluted runoff from Maryland highways

Environmental advocates are calling on Maryland’s Department of the Environment to take stronger action to reduce polluted runoff from state highways as a public comment period draws to a close. Later this summer, MDE will issue a new Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permit to the Maryland Department of Transportation. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Maryland Executive Director Allison Colden says those permits are put in place to mitigate the ha…