Redwood Capital Investment holding,Tradepoint Atlantic, released on October 17, 2018 their 304 page Tax Incremental Funding application for $120,000,000 submitted to the Baltimore County Department of Labor and Economic Development in Spring 2018. Tax Incremental Funding Application The application will be reviewed on the merits how Baltimore County taxpayers Read more…
Air borne industrial emissions are medically well documented by the National Institute for Heath (NIH) as causing and/or exacerbating asthma and other pulmonary sickness and disease in humans. Fort Howard residents recently experienced contamination from industrial emissions resulting from operations, less than a mile away, at Trade Point Atlantic. These emissions migrated Read more…
Recently a Yale School of Forestry & Environmental article concluded 70 percent of global ship’s noxious sulfur-laden air pollution that contributes to the millions of cases of childhood asthma and other respiratory ailments occur within 250 miles of land. Located at the mouth of the Patapso River, Fort Howard Read more…
As an international logistics gateway, Trade Point Atlantic’s projected 28,000 tractor trailer trips per day may have several future traffic and environmental impacts on the communities surrounding the new bay bridge crossing. To assure that all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) policy Read more…
Ms. Leah Kelly of Environmental Integrity Project requested on behalf of Fort Howard Community Association an extension of the comment period for the Access World LLC’s commodity grinding and pulverizing processing permit. Mrs. Shannon Heafey of MDE’s Air Quality Permits Program Air and Radiation Administration has favorably replied in the following. Read more…
Testimony by Fort Howard Community Association representatives and members, Environmental Analyst Mr. Russel Donnelly, and 7th District Civic Council of Baltimore County Leaders Helping Leaders detailed the ongoing air quality concerns regarding fugitive air particulate emissions from the Sparrows Point, Maryland industrial site. With the 130 years history of toxic industrial Read more…
Sparrows Point Voluntary Cleanup Program MDE/EPA Public Meeting Update on Environmental Work at Sparrows Point April 25, 2018 at 6 p.m. North Point Library 1716 Merritt Boulevard Dundalk, MD 21222 Air Quality Monitors will be addressed for Fort Howard, Community residents and for our schools. Sparrows Point Environmental Reports Read more…
Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7 PM the Maryland Department of Environment is taking public comment on Sparrows Point break-bulk shipping terminal operator Access World (USA) LLC’s application to construct a 1800 ton per hour slag grinding and pulverizing mill at the previous 3100 acre steel manufacturing complex. Records indicate 2600 Read more…
On Friday, February 17, 2017 Fort Howard Community Association received a phone call from the East County Times as seen in the caller ID photo. posing three questions related to a demonstration of support for our veterans well-being and the well-being of Fort Howard residents : Why Read more…
Councilman Wade Kach provided the following resource to the Fort Howard Community Association.The below 2016-17 lobbyist list includes Venable lawyers Patricia Malone, Christopher Mudd, and David Karcecki. Mr. Karcecki was commissioned last night February 21, 2016 by Councilmans Almond, Quirk, Bevins, Jones, and Marks on the Baltimore County Charter Review Read more…