In Baltimore and across Maryland abandoned “ghost cars” become collateral damage in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

There was no odor, a Maryland Department of the Environment inspector said, speculating that the source may be a flocculant or coagulant used for treatment of sediment-laden water on construction sites.

The Scott administration’s efforts to limit OIG investigations into waste, fraud and abuse, he says, are legally untenable and detrimental to good government.

The state allowed a North Baltimore facility to begin incineration operations without stack and opacity tests; the York Road facility had a second release after the first was reported.