ANNAPOLIS, MD - The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled earlier this week that a coalition of local and national river advocacy groups have standing to challenge a major stormwater pollution permit in court.

At issue is a state-issued pollution discharge permit for Montgomery County’s 499-square mile stormwater system. Clean water groups contend the permit allows ongoing harm to water quality and human health due to excessive discharges of pollutants and trash into the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers watersheds.

By Megan Buerger, The Washington Post, May 2, 2012

We are still interested in algae complaint letters from all river users and landowners along the Shenandoah North Fork, South Fork and Main Stem.  The algaes don't seem to be going away and I need your help doing something about it.

One year after a judge ordered highway engineering firm Fluor-Lane LLC to correct pollution problems at its 495 HOT Lanes construction site in Annandale,

Now with the season finale of the Apprentice over and confirmation that Mr. Trump will not be running for President we hope that he will have more time to devote to replanting the the trees that his Trump National Golf course clear-cut last summer along the shore of the Potomac above Seneca Breaks and the Fairfax County water intake. Loudoun County does not have rules protecting the river shoreline from this type of destruction by landowners. Potomac Riverkeeper is collaborating with several river groups to push the county to pass stronger protections.

Our Green Farms, Clean Rivers Program had a major development this week, with Agricultural Project Manager Alan Lehman reporting that he has surveyed his 1,000th farm in the Shenandoah Valley.

On June 3, The Last Mountain will debut in Washington, DC's E-Street Cinema.