By Phillip McGowan, The Baltimore Sun Jan. 9--The owner of Laurel Park wants to fill in 4 acres of wetlands in the Patuxent River watershed as part of a multimillion-dollar redevelopment to modernize the floundering thoroughbred racetrack.

To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Sean Crowley of Environmental Defense, +1-202-550-6524, scrowley@ed.org Appeal Focuses on Clean Air Act Violations RICHMOND, Va., Jan.

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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun Nov. 26--The toothpaste is out of the tube. The fat lady has not only sung; she's cooling down with a post-operatic beer. The Rubicon has been crossed -- by a six-lane toll bridge. Pick your cliche, but the War of the Intercounty Connector is over.

By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun Nov. 9--A federal judge gave Maryland the go-ahead yesterday to begin construction of a long-debated highway in the Washington suburbs, flatly rejecting environmentalists' challenges to the $2.4 billion project. Judge Alexander Williams Jr. of the U.S.