4-11-12: "Tax on Rain" Passes in Maryland to Pay for Stormwater Pollution Controls

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Just minutes before midnight on the last day of the Maryland General Assembly session, lawmakers approved a landmark law that will require cities and counties to create fees to pay for stormwater pollution control projects. Although ridiculed by critics as a "tax on rain," advocates argue the stormwater fees will put thousands of people to work building stormwater filters (like the one shown above in Montgomery County) and allow local governments to tackle the only source of pollution still growing in the Chesapeake Bay.