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Ad War Erupts Over Pollution Control Fees

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Tom Pelton
Published February 4, 2014 at 1:56 PM EST

An advertising and public relations battle has erupted over stormwater pollution control fees in Maryland. 

Ad War Erupts Over Pollution Control Fees
Environment In Focus podcast 2/5/2014

Radio ads by the Clean Water Healthy Families Coalition urges Maryland lawmakers not to overturn the state's 2012 law that requires pollution control fees. On the other side, a You Tube video argues the "rain tax" is driving people out of the state.
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Tom Pelton
Tom Pelton, a national award-winning environmental journalist, has hosted "The Environment in Focus" since 2007. He also works as director of communications for the Environmental Integrity Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to holding polluters and governments accountable to protect public health. From 1997 until 2008, he was a journalist for The Baltimore Sun, where he was twice named one of the best environmental reporters in America by the Society of Environmental Journalists.
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