The Maryland Department of the Environment will hold its first public hearing today in Baltimore City on new regulations for the disposal of coal fly ash, the byproduct of coal power plants.
The regulations are the first for how to use material to fill former sand and gravel mines. Ash from Constellation Energy power plants has been blamed for contaminating private wells surrounding two former mines in Gambrills in Anne Arundel.
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