Posted on 05/08/2008 11:06:32 AM PDT by JZelle
ANNAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Martin O'Malley said yesterday he likely will delay the start of a law that allows only low-phosphorus dishwashing detergent in Maryland — a measure intended to reduce Chesapeake Bay pollution and the first such statewide ban in the country.
The General Assembly approved the bill a year ago, requiring companies that make the detergent to use low amounts of phosphorous by the end of 2009. But detergent maker Procter & Gamble Co. said it took effect too soon to make production changes and pushed to delay implementation until July 2010, a change approved by lawmakers in the last session.
Mr. O'Malley, a Democrat, said on WTOP Radio that giving the companies an additional six-month delay is not unreasonable.
"The way that some would look at it is ... they've been doing it for so long, we should put an immediate stop to it," he said. "The way others would look at it is that after changing their practices and changing their products, that a six-month accommodation is not unreasonable, and I tend to come down on that side of that argument."
Mr. O'Malley also said he is pleased Maryland is at the forefront of changing the way "an entire industry operates."
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Gentlemen may cry, Dishsoap, Dishsoap — but there is no dishsoap. The plates are in the sink! The next meal that sweeps off the table will bring to our ears the clash of greasy plates! Their brethren are already piling up! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of dishsoap? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me clean dishes or give me death!
Would you settle for paper plates?
When dish soap is banned, only outlaws will have dish soap.
So we’re effectively banning dish soap in Maryland. I can imagine soap companies looking at this law and laughing.
Drill for Dish Soap!!! Do it NOW!!!
Of course, after we burn up our food in our gas tanks, we may not need to wash dishes anymore.
I expect the threat of a toilet paper rationing before November.
Instead of dish soap they should be worrying about the Federal mandate for mercury laden CFLs that will turn every home in the state into a hazardous materials site.
Madge would be a felon if she lived in Maryland now. You’re soaking in it!
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