Press release and other updates.
In her February 3 article Sapna Bansil reports on the unanimous Baltimore County Council decision to put a moratorium on development of data centers in the county. She quotes councilman Pat Young’s rationale for the freeze when he said, “A year and a half ago, when someone said data center, what we thought in our …
In her January 19th article for Maryland Matters, Christine Condon covered the proposed natural gas-fired power plant to be built on the already burdened Perryman peninsula in Harford county. The article discusses the current state of the community: sandwiched between the Bush River and Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and run-through with highways and trucks frequenting the …
In Jeremy Cox’s December 9th 2025 article in The Bay Journal “Maryland downplays race, ethnicity in its environmental justice scoring system” Cox analyzes the changes and reactions to the changes the Maryland Department of the Environment made to their Enviroscreen 3.0 tool compared to previous versions. The tool is designed to help analyze the disparities …
Thanks to Sapna Bansil at the Baltimore Banner and Natalie Jones at the Baltimore Sun for their articles covering the latest news on the Days Cove Rubble Landfill Lease. The Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW) met on January 7th, 2026 in part to discuss the future of the landfill, which had been operating without …
On January 5th, 2026 Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young proposed Bill 3-26 which would put a one-year freeze on data center construction in Baltimore County in response to residents’ concerns over a proposed 42-acre, 150-megawatt data center in Woodlawn. According to John Lee’s article in WYPR, The Catonsville Democrat’s legislation, which he introduced Monday night, …