Rules and Regs: Chicken Tax Proposed to Support Chesapeake Bay Cleanup

In this month’s regulations update, one state may lose a septic-replacement funding program and Maryland lawmakers propose a chicken tax to fund water-quality improvement measures
Rules and Regs: Chicken Tax Proposed to Support Chesapeake Bay Cleanup

To help fund its Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort, Maryland already has a rain tax and a flush tax on both sewer and septic users. Next up could be a chicken tax of five cents per bird supplied to farms by poultry companies. Supporters say the proposal would help fund septic system...

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