{"id":1881,"date":"2016-03-15T09:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2016-03-15T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:43:27","slug":"bay-journal-maryland-stormwater-permits-upheld-rejecting-complaints-theyre-not-tough-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2016\/03\/15\/bay-journal-maryland-stormwater-permits-upheld-rejecting-complaints-theyre-not-tough-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Journal: Maryland stormwater permits upheld, rejecting complaints they\u2019re not tough enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State appeals court sides with state regulators; environmental groups file another suit against EPA over tributary cleanup plans<\/p>\n<p>Environmental regulators acted within the law in giving Maryland\u2019s largest localities some leeway in deciding how to reduce polluted runoff from their streets, buildings and parking lots, the state\u2019s highest court has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous 100-page opinion, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdcourts.gov\/opinions\/coa\/2016\/42a15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Court of Appeals<\/a> on Friday dismissed complaints by several environmental groups that stormwater pollution discharge permits issued by the state were not sufficiently stringent and had been drafted without adequate public input&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayjournal.com\/blog\/post\/maryland_stormwater_permits_upheld_rejecting_complaints_theyre_not_tough_en\" target=\"_blank\">entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State appeals court sides with state regulators; environmental groups file another suit against EPA over tributary cleanup plans Environmental regulators acted within the law in giving Maryland\u2019s largest localities some leeway in deciding how to reduce polluted runoff from their streets, buildings and parking lots, the state\u2019s highest court has ruled. In a unanimous 100-page<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2016\/03\/15\/bay-journal-maryland-stormwater-permits-upheld-rejecting-complaints-theyre-not-tough-enough\/\">&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":[12,81,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","category-secretary-grumbles","category-stormwater-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1882"}],"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=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}