Early October is a busy time for farmers in the wooded, agricultural countryside between Mardela Springs and Hebron, Maryland. It's harvesting season: The yellow-green soybean fields are replete with ...

The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely limit, if not ban, sludge tanks in the county. Sludge tanks, also known as Dissolved Air Flotation tanks, are used by ...

Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, a private landowner and an Arkansas-based waste company of illegally ...

The General Assembly is zeroing in on industrial sludge regulations with discussions on a cross-filed bill that would require a permit for its storage and use. The Industrial Sludge Utilization Permit ...