{"id":2430,"date":"2012-12-20T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:43:33","slug":"statement-from-maryland-agriculture-secretary-buddy-hance-about-the-court-ruling-in-waterkeeper-alliance-inc-v-alan-hudson-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2012\/12\/20\/statement-from-maryland-agriculture-secretary-buddy-hance-about-the-court-ruling-in-waterkeeper-alliance-inc-v-alan-hudson-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Maryland Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance about the Court Ruling in Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. v. Alan Hudson et al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPoultry is the largest agricultural sector in Maryland, and it is critically important to Maryland\u2019s economic health. The Chesapeake Bay is one of our greatest national treasures and its restoration is critical to our state\u2019s environmental health. Judge Nickerson\u2019s ruling today goes a long way toward ensuring that both our agricultural heritage and our effort to restore the Bay can move forward cooperatively and in harmony, rather than through damaging litigation. Maryland has been working diligently and more successfully than many other states to ensure that our agricultural operations are managed in a way that protects water quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPoultry is the largest agricultural sector in Maryland, and it is critically important to Maryland\u2019s economic health. The Chesapeake Bay is one of our greatest national treasures and its restoration is critical to our state\u2019s environmental health. Judge Nickerson\u2019s ruling today goes a long way toward ensuring that both our agricultural heritage and our effort<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2012\/12\/20\/statement-from-maryland-agriculture-secretary-buddy-hance-about-the-court-ruling-in-waterkeeper-alliance-inc-v-alan-hudson-et-al\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[372,370,371],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-alan-hudson","tag-secretary-buddy-hance","tag-waterkeeping-alliance-inc"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}