Volume 2, Number 1

May 2006

eMDE is a monthly publication of the Maryland Department of the Environment. It covers articles on current environmental issues and events in the state. Additional monthly features include: MDE public meetings and hearings schedule, enforcement and compliance notes, and permitting activity. 

Nearly 300,000 cubic yards of coal refuse were dumped down slopes of the mine openings resulting in a large, very steep, unstable and unvegetated coal refuse piles.