Climate Action Plan

Baltimore Region Climate Action Plan Are you worried about how climate change impacts the Baltimore region? Discover how Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) is working to reduce pollution through our climate action plans. Learn how you can get involved below. Make your voice heard by participating in our public survey before November 11th!  Join Read more…

100 Million Dollar Community Benefit Agreement for Trade Point Atlantic Coke Point Dredge

The  September 16, 2024 Hart-Miller Island Community Benefit Agreement Committee meeting  was reported by Devin Crum as following Nellybelle News article. Hart-Miller steering committee may want more than $40M for community benefit Posted 9/20/2024, 2:45 a.m. By Devin Crum Officials from Tradepoint Atlantic have said they were “comfortable” offering a Read more…

Shallow Creek Dredge

The Shallow Creek dredge project is limited to maintenance dredging. Individuals that are interested in NEW spur dredging are directed to secure their own permit and contact David Riter for assistance being included on the dredge contract.  Permit application will be in September 2025 with goal of dredging Fall 2026.  Read more…

Fish Advisory Signs

Click Photo for MDE Fish Consumption Advisory Many thanks to Madam Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio and Maryland Department of Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles  for providing   Fort Howard residents Fish Consumption Advisory  signs.  In  February 7, 2019, the 7th District Civic Council of Baltimore County sent Read more…

Tradepoint Atlantic Environmental Cleanup Meeting October 3, 2019

The Maryland Department of Environment and United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency (MDE/EPA) is hosting a joint public informational meeting on developer Tradepoint Atlantic’s Environmental Hazardous Waste Cleanup status at the North Point Library, 1716 Merritt Blvd., Dundalk, MD on October 3rd, 2019 starting at 6:30 P.M. Tradepoint Atlantic’s Environmental Hazardous Waste Read more…

Save the Man-O-War Shoals

Save Man O'War Shoal from CCA Maryland on Vimeo. https://widget.civist.cloud/?api_url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.civist.cloud%2Ft%2F7b8daed8-8d7e-4651-8a20-06c8082ef9e4%2F#/RW1iZWRkaW5nOmUyMmZmYjU4LTk0ZTItNDZjMC1iNzY2LTFkOGM3ZDFkY2NiZg== Just a couple of miles off the shores of historic Fort Howard, Maryland in the Baltimore County’s world famous Chesapeake Bay waters  lies the last intact surviving oyster shoal from prehistoric days: Man-O-War Oyster Shoals. Tragically,  the  Maryland Department of Read more…

Bay 101: Air Pollution

For two generations Fort Howard residents have been plagued with particulate and noxious air emitted from various industrial stationary and mobile sources at adjacent Sparrows Point Peninsula across Old Road Bay. The Clean Air Act was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s federal response to those decades establishing a set of principal air Read more…