{"id":1521,"date":"2015-05-21T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2015-05-21T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:03:59","slug":"daily-record-new-md-environmental-chief-enforcement-not-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/05\/21\/daily-record-new-md-environmental-chief-enforcement-not-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Record: New Md. environmental chief: Enforcement not \u2018first step\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new head of the Maryland Department of the Environment is promising better relations with businesses in the state but said environmental groups need not be worried he will be a rubber stamp.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Grumbles, Gov. Larry Hogan\u2019s choice to lead the environmental agency, said his challenge will be to \u201caccelerate the pace of environmental progress in Maryland,\u201d including improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay, even as he attempts to improve the perception that his agency contributes significantly to what is seen as an unfriendly business climate in the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/2015\/05\/20\/new-md-environmental-chief-enforcement-not-first-step\/\" target=\"_blank\">the entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new head of the Maryland Department of the Environment is promising better relations with businesses in the state but said environmental groups need not be worried he will be a rubber stamp. Ben Grumbles, Gov. Larry Hogan\u2019s choice to lead the environmental agency, said his challenge will be to \u201caccelerate the pace of environmental<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/05\/21\/daily-record-new-md-environmental-chief-enforcement-not-first-step\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","category-secretary-grumbles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}