Maryland AG Held Medical Waste Incinerator Facility Accountable for Environmental Violations

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced the guilty plea and sentencing of the owner and operator of a special medical waste incinerator facility. The forty criminal charges against the owner and operator of the facility, which is located in Baltimore City, relate to the facility’s insufficient treatment and improper handling of special medical waste, which is waste that is discarded separately into biohazard containers to prevent the spread of dangerous diseases. The sentencing includes 2 years of probation, a $1,000,000 fine which will be added to the Maryland Clean Water Fund, and $750,000 in funding for a Supplemental Environmental Project to benefit communities surrounding the facility. An investigation by the AG’s Environmental and Natural Resources Crimes Unit found that the facility would frequently dispose of waste into general landfills without fully incinerating it first, and intentionally concealed violations of its permit during inspections.