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Spring Snow - March 2013
A fairly average snowstorm left about a foot and a half of wet snow on the Garrett County ground this week, which then began to melt by yesterday afternoon as the temperatures rose into the upper 30s. Perhaps it is too much to hope that this might be the swan song of storms this season, but the forecast does indicate a warming trend over the next few days, with snow tapering off, rain coming in, and the mercury expected to reach 50 by Monday afternoon. A change from what this photo shows, taken Wednesday morning by Erica Carlson of Oakland.
Outbursts in Annapolis
| Written by Elisabeth Hoffman |
| Friday, 01 March 2013 15:09 |
| –from the blog ClimateHowardAt least half a dozen Western Maryland residents rose in the dark, left home as an ice storm approached, traveled 200 miles to Annapolis and waited, along with environmental and health activists, for nearly six hours yesterday to testify in favor of a moratorium on fracking in the state.
For their trouble, they were screamed at repeatedly by state Sen. Joanne Benson, a member of the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee. “We are going through an exercise in futility,” she shrieked. And then she yelled again: “We are going through an exercise in futility here. It’s a dead issue.” And, “Nothing is going to happen.” And “The decision has already been made.” (Oddly, Benson is a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 514 that would ban fracking in Maryland.)
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New law requires landlords to provide recycling
MDE to notify unit owners
OAKLAND — The Maryland Department of the Environment will send letters in the coming weeks concerning new recycling requirements for owners of apartment buildings or condominiums that have 10 or more units, according to Garrett County Solid Waste and Recycling.
These property owners will be required to provide recycling to their tenants by Oct. 1, 2014, in accordance with House Bill 1, which was passed during the 2012 legislative session. The bill requires that tenants are given the opportunity to recycle metal containers, plastic containers, glass containers and paper.
Garrett County will need to adopt an amendment to its 10-year plan in order to comply with the legislation. An opportunity for public comment will be provided sometime before the bill’s effective date. The language for the amendment still needs to be drafted and MDE will have to approve the language before it can be adopted, according to Dave Baker, manager of the Department of Solid Waste and Recycling.
The bill also provides for enforcement of the law. Each county can address how it will handle violations as part of the language adopted into the 10-year plan.
For more information or to comment, call 301-387-0322.
MDE has also offered to take questions directed to either Tariq Masood, regulatory and compliance engineer, at 410-537-3326 or tmasood@mde.state.md.us or David Mrgich, chief, Waste Diversion Division at dmrgich@mde. state. md.us or 410-537-4142.
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