Maryland reaches settlement with EPA

BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown will announce a proposed settlement in a 2020 lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require Pennsylvania to develop and implement plans to achieve 2025 Chesapeake Bay restoration goals.

"The bay is the largest estuary in the United States, and it receives 50% of its freshwater from the Susquehanna River. As Susquehanna travels from New York through Pennsylvania, brings with it pollution that impairs the health of the bay. May owners deserve a clean, healthy bay. And Marylanders have been doing the demanding work to curb pollution and restore the ecosystem," Brown said Thursday. 

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed the notice of intent to sue with District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine.

They say the EPA has failed to require Pennsylvania and New York to develop and implement plans to achieve 2025 Chesapeake Bay restoration goals as required by an agreement by states in the watershed of the nation's largest estuary.