Kor-Ko Ltd. v. Maryland Department of the Environment

Opinion by

Harrell, J.

Dust in the wind;

All we are is dust in the wind.

Opening lyrics of “Dust in the Wind” on Kansas’s “Point of Know Return” album (1977).

Would Kansas’s song have made it to No. 6 on the “Billboard Hot 100” and achieved Gold Record sales status in 1978 had listeners understood that the dust in the wind may have contained arsenic, hexavalent chromium, hydrogen chloride, dioxins, and mercury, as we learn from the controversy before us, a case involving the emissions to the air from the operation *406of a crematorium? Kor-Ko, Ltd. (Kor-Ko), the principal Petitioner in the present…