A state-backed report found coal dust across Curtis Bay. CSX isn’t convinced.

Run your hand across a window sill in Curtis Bay, and you’re likely to come up with a dark film coating your fingers. For decades, residents of the industrialized South Baltimore neighborhood have said this dust is coal that wafts off the property from CSX piers next door, where millions of tons of coal pass through each year. Residents have said this dust is harming them; some describe routinely hosing down their homes and report stories of respiratory problems and childhood asthma.