“I Don’t Know What the Environment Got”
-Environmental activist Fred Tutman as quoted in the Washington Post’s article today Maryland eases environmental restrictions on some developers. Instead of requiring development projects to apply Environmental Site Design to all projects getting final approval after May, the Maryland Department of the Environment has allowed some projects to follow the old standards so long as they apply by 2013. This is viewed as a compromise to prevent the passage of House Bill 1125, which would have been even more harmful.
H.L. Mencken described the Chesapeake Bay of his youth as a “immense protein factory” out which the people of his home town Baltimore ate divinely. That Bay is no more, and today it is still waiting for Marylanders to make it a priority.
