the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Nov 24, 2025
The Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River in Maryland, upstream from the Chesapeake Bay, has trapped sediment in its reservoir for nearly a century. Phosphorus and nitrogen spill past the dam and fuel toxic algal blooms in the Bay.
In early October the dam’s owner, Constellation Energy Corp., made a deal with Maryland officials and environmental groups for a new license for the dam. Constellation promised to pay 340 million dollars over 50 years for environmental work. This comes out to less than seven million dollars a year, a fraction of the dam’s electrical power generation sales. Almost all the money pledged will go for projects having nothing to do with the sediment problem, like freshwater mussel restoration, trash removal, and fish and eel passage improvements.
As for the urgent need to dredge the sediment in the reservoir, less than 19 million dollars is promised, and that will only pay for “additional studies.”
In other words, this “historic agreement” avoids the main threat to the Bay.