Christine Condon Koene
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Journalist at Maryland Matters covering the environment. Former Baltimore Sun reporter, and proud Sun Guild member.
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Joined September 2011
Advocates in Prince George's County are dumbfounded by the nomination of a county employee who was fired in 2014 to lead his old agency. They're preparing to fight back. https://t.co/vSmDYzCpyK
marylandmatters.org
Prince George's County Executive Aisha Braveboy has the utmost confidence in her nominee to run the county's environmental agency, even though he was terminated from the department in 2014 for "gross...
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EXTRA! EXTRA! David Smith’s Baltimore Sun wants to silence union employees from speaking out about their own working conditions.
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Our union journalists work tirelessly to hold the powerful accountable, and that includes in our own workplace. The Baltimore Sun’s ownership wants us silent. Send a message to David Smith and Armstrong Williams: Baltimore won’t stand for it.
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We recently invited David Smith to the bargaining table — he suggested that he could get a deal done in “five minutes.” That meeting never came. Instead, his lawyer declared impasse, and told us they’d implement a contract that silences union members.
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Find out why I am carrying this 35-pound blue catfish (I was terrified of dropping it): https://t.co/AfjUFSnZdP
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A Prince George's County worker was fired for "gross negligence." Now, he’s nominated to lead his old agency. https://t.co/SEu4p2HR9l
marylandmatters.org
To lead the Prince George’s County Department of the Environment, County Executive Aisha N. Braveboy (D) is turning to someone who was fired from that very department a decade ago.
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Why are farmers so concerned about solar legislation passed in Maryland this year? https://t.co/Ie59yR4eaX
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Maryland farmers fear that thousands of acres of Maryland farmland could soon be producing solar energy under a new law, rather than corn, wheat and soybeans — potentially disrupting a delicate...
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Auditors also identified other leases they called problematic. More from my colleague @bpsears : https://t.co/Xw71QTW69X
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New legislative audit casts doubts on hundreds of millions of dollars in savings claimed earlier this year by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.
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Audit pans Maryland Department of the Environment lease, arguing the state essentially paid for $10M of renovations to a privately owned building. https://t.co/Ih1YprSBwX
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Auditors panned a $167.1 million lease deal for the Maryland Department of the Environment in a report released Thursday afternoon, arguing the state overpaid to secure a $10 million office renovat...
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NEW: A 20-year lease for the Maryland Department of the Environment is under scrutiny — including in an upcoming report to the legislature — for its costs, and a $10 million renovation plan included in the deal. https://t.co/weOMmbU6KP
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The Maryland Department of the Environment will get a landlord-paid $10 million makeover at its Montgomery Park offices -- at a cost. The agency had to agree to a 20-year lease with few ways out of...
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An update today in the feud between the EPA and Maryland over the Ocean City offshore wind project:
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The Maryland Department of the Environment is defending the permit it issued to a wind farm proposed off the coast of Ocean City, after a challenge from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Breaking: maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld will step down by Aug. 1. Full Story at Maryland Matters https://t.co/CkNEOrO20R
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Gov. Wes Moore is signing the legislature's biggest energy bill tomorrow. It could kick off a petition campaign to bring the bill to a referendum. But the last time a similar effort succeeded was 2012. https://t.co/fTuXa2XwVV
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has yet to sign the legislature’s biggest energy bill into law, but there is already a campaign in the works to challenge the measure at referendum.
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Also vetoed was one bill included in the energy package backed by House and Senate leadership, which created an office for strategic energy planning in Maryland.
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Gov. Wes Moore has vetoed 23 bills, including efforts to study reparations for slavery in Maryland, and to study the effects of climate change in the state. One climate activist told me the move is "unforgivable. https://t.co/qrpufOWkoX
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Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Friday that he will veto the Reparations Commission bill that called for a study of historic inequality endured by African descendants in Maryland.
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For the first time, a Maryland state agency is inspecting EV chargers, and it's actually the Department of Agriculture. More here: https://t.co/wO54qwnJO1
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The little-known team of 18 Maryland Department of Agriculture inspectors that typically checks equipment such as gas pumps and grocery store scales for accuracy has a new target: electric vehicle...
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More than 100 property owners are holding their line against the proposed Piedmont power line in Central Maryland. The power line company had to file in federal court earlier this week, asking for access to the properties for land surveys. https://t.co/YVV8Nlhwoc
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More than 100 property owners in Central Maryland have refused to let power company PSEG onto their land to survey for the proposed Piedmont power line project, said the company, which has sued to...
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A new trash wheel is likely coming to the Baltimore area, and it will live on the Back River. Read more about the environmental projects Baltimore City is funding after its wastewater treatment meltdown during covid: https://t.co/LcCucHubFF
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The Baltimore region could get a new trash wheel, one of 21 environmental projects for which Baltimore City is providing funding to compensate for pollution caused by the failure of two city wastew...
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Moore to issue executive order that could delay EV sales penalties https://t.co/fzxiRpig1h
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Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued an executive order Friday that could delay initial penalties for electric vehicle manufacturers who do not meet sales goals under a prescriptive state plan that is supposed...
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The Key Bridge, one year later: Remembering a tragedy that killed six workers, and destroyed ‘a fixture of the Baltimore skyline and the Baltimore spirit’ https://t.co/P5QIXG9irG
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Dignitaries, first responders and victims’ family members gathered Wednesday at the site of the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge to mark the somber anniversary of the disaster that killed six and...
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