• The Maryland Department of the Environment is considering new septic rules to reduce nitrogen pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
• The agency's chief, Robert Summers, told a legislative committee that estimates are that it would tack as much as $8,000 onto the prices of homes that use septic systems.
• If the review committee says OK to the plan, the agency will take public comments and move ahead with ways to implement it. Opponents say such a change it should be handled in statutes, not agency regulations.

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A proposed septics law in Maryland would clean up the Chesapeake Bay, but critics have said it would add as much as $8,000 to the cost of a new home. ...