Local outcry derailed a plan to import contaminated Ohio water to Maryland: So what now?

When Republican Del. Kathy Szeliga of Baltimore County, who once served as chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Andy “Election Denier” Harris, and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott are singing from the same hymn book, you know a political call is clear. After a plan to send contaminated wastewater from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment to Baltimore was revealed late last week, each got to work, along with quite a few others, decrying the possibility and pushing back. And apparently it worked.