Maryland: Hogan moves quickly to block controversial environmental regulations
Source: Baltimore Sun
In one of his first acts after taking office Wednesday, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan withdrew a handful of regulations proposed in the final weeks of the previous Democratic administration..
One hotly contested proposal would have curbed Eastern Shore farmers' use of poultry manure on their fields. Another of the blocked regulations would have clamped down on smog-forming air pollution from coal-burning power plants
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The farm regulation was aimed at helping clean up the Chesapeake Bay by restricting how much phosphorus-rich fertilizer farmers can apply to their fields. The rule mainly affects the Eastern Shore, preventing farmers there from spreading chicken manure on fields already saturated with the plant nutrient. Farm runoff is a leading source of bay pollution, feeding algae blooms and contributing to fish-suffocating "dead zones" in the water every summer.
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The air pollution rule also has been controversial. Environmentalists strongly backed the O'Malley administration's move to reduce coal plants' nitrogen oxide emissions, saying it would make Baltimore's and Washington's air healthier to breathe. But power companies have warned it could raise electricity costs and possibly even force the shutdown of some plants.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bs-md-hogan-regulations-20150121-story.html
Well, I can finally tell all my friends back in Maryland that they now know how it feels like to have a corporatist regulation-gutting suck-up of a Governor, just like I've had to live under Jeb and Rick Scott all these years.
Seriously, what was Maryland thinking when they elected this clown?
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I voted for Brown, this piece of work Hogan, was endorsed and had one Chis Christie down here and if that does not say anything, I don't now what will, look at the budget deficit of New Jersey, the bridge gate, I don't want a tunnel for Amtrak ( remember), he has lost over 2 billion in infrastructure work, so Hogan the worthless right wing hypocrites that he is, wants to gut and cut everything, I guess he drinks and eats fish from another polluted region or the country and world and is immune, without fresh water going into the bay, the Maryland Blue crabs are doomed, striped bass, you name it and then we have the algae blooms is certain spots, no one wants to talk about this though in the media here in this state, they think this guy will walk on water.
The eastern shore is nothing but a right wing republicans proverbial hole of greed.
When you go to a meeting with the town and ask them what industry they are going to bring, this is there classic response, we don't have the educational force to bring in any jobs that meet the needs of the industry (so they decided to cut the education budget---great forward thinking concept)
So the county decided to give Wal Mart tax incentives (a study was done that if Walton's gave all of there employees a 6 dollar raise, they would make more money, instead of trying to rig the paper on Wall Street for the price per share and stock buy back, but what the heck when the game is rigged keep on rigging the game, that's forward thinking. A corporation that gets subsidized incentives for there employees to use food stamps and then complains when they want to eat or make a good livable wage.
Just posted this on my FB. Hope my daughter's in-laws aren't upset with me. Their issue was 'taxes,' I think. 
Since he got into office, and since Christie was on the greed trail during the Maryland campaign and was hooting and hollering for him, I can't wait for him to assign a manager to his job, just like his hero Christie is doing in New Jersey.
And in four years lets take a good look at the state budget when this piece of work came into office
