Maryland Matters: Johnny forced state to track sewage overflows into the Bay

Johnny didn’t just talk about clean water — he amended a major environmental bill on the House floor and forced the state to track every sewage overflow incident pouring into the Chesapeake Bay. That’s the difference between a press release and an actual fight.

Point-source pollution from wastewater treatment plants is the number-one water-quality concern in District 37 — the issue watermen in Cambridge, oyster growers in Talbot, and waterfront families across the Shore have been raising for years. Johnny made Annapolis put it in writing. He pulled enough House Democrats across the aisle to get the amendment adopted, because protecting the Bay isn’t a partisan question when you live next to it.

That’s what real environmental fighting looks like — not slogans, not symbolic mandates, but measurable accountability for the plants actually dumping into the water.