09/16/2026
🗞️📣✳️🚨BRANDYWINEMD .COM COMMUNITY CLARIFICATION🚨THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ATTRIBUTION ISSUE🚨This is not about a personal disagreement. It is not about preventing anyone from reporting on Brandywine.
And it is not about stopping legitimate questions.
This is about protecting the public record, the originating source, and DECADES of community-developed work since the 1960's.
BTB/ECCB developed the September 4 MDE Site Locations / Community Awareness Map as part of a community-led regulatory accountability process examining what government often evaluates separately: power generation, mining, waste operations, contaminated sites, diesel traffic, air emissions, water pathways, industrial development and their cumulative burden on one community.
BrandywineMD .com subsequently reproduced our map and substantial portions of our accompanying narrative without BTB/ECCB’s prior authorization or coordination. The publication then used our map as the basis for separate third-party and AI-assisted interpretations concerning individual numbered locations and what our work supposedly does or does not establish.
Then the same platform appeared on our public post questioning BTB about the very map it had republished.
That sequence matters.
THIS IS ALSO ABOUT HISTORY.
BTB has dealt with attribution and representation issues surrounding Brandywine’s environmental-justice work before.
In 2016, several organizations opposed additional fossil-fuel development in the Brandywine area. But those organizations did not all perform the same work, and those legal actions should not be merged into one generalized story. Clean Air Prince George’s and GBACA promoted and supported litigation challenging the Mattawoman power-plant approval and raised funds for that litigation.
Separately, on May 11, 2016, the federal Title VI civil-rights complaint was filed on behalf of the Brandywine | TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition and Patuxent Riverkeeper.
The actual federal complaint identifies:
Brandywine | TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition — Kamita Gray Patuxent Riverkeeper — Fred Tutman. NO ONE ELSE... PERIOD OUR WORK!
EPA’s official civil-rights docket records the Brandywine Title VI matters against the Maryland Public Service Commission, Maryland Department of the Environment and Maryland Department of Natural Resources as filed May 11, 2016. Those proceedings were later resolved through the January 30, 2019 EPA/DOT Informal Resolution Agreement.
EPA’s own October 2016 Environmental Justice meeting record also identifies the Brandywine | TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition, documents BTB’s cumulative-impact concerns, and records that the community had filed a Title VI complaint being investigated by EPA.
That history matters.
Shared opposition to a power plant does not create shared authorship of another organization’s civil-rights strategy, research, mapping, regulatory work or institutional history.
WHY WE ARE SPEAKING UP NOW
When community-developed work is repeatedly generalized, republished, reinterpreted or presented through another platform, something important can happen: the originating organization disappears while the secondary platform becomes identified as the source.
We will not allow that to happen to BTB’s record.
BrandywineMD .com is free to:
conduct its own research,
create its own maps,
interview its own sources,
analyze public records, and
reach its own conclusions.
What it should not do is reproduce BTB/ECCB work, use that work as the foundation for its own analysis, layer third-party or AI-assisted interpretations over it, and then create confusion about what BTB actually documented or concluded.
And to be equally clear:
A BrandywineMD .com interpretation of a BTB/ECCB map is not a BTB/ECCB correction but referencing an unauthorized use.
An AI interpretation of a BTB/ECCB map is not a BTB/ECCB finding. And is disrespectful since they have not done the work.
Republishing BTB/ECCB work does not transfer authorship of that work.
THIS IS NOT PERSONAL. IT IS INSTITUTIONAL.
This is about source integrity, community authorship, historical accuracy and accountability.
The public deserves to know who originated the work.
Government deserves to know whose findings it is reviewing.
Future researchers deserve an accurate record.
And communities that spend years developing knowledge about what is happening on the ground deserve to have that work attributed correctly.
From this point forward, BTB/ECCB will be more deliberate about protecting its maps, research, regulatory materials and community-developed work products.
We will also continue building a documented Brandywine Community
Accountability Record so there is a clear historical record of:
who did what,
when it occurred,
what proceeding it belonged to, and
who originated the work.
We welcome legitimate questions.
We welcome independent research.
We welcome accountability.
But accountability runs both ways.
Do not erase the originating community.
Do not blur separate histories.
Do not republish community-developed work and then position yourself as the authority correcting the organization that created it.
PROTECT THE RECORD. ATTRIBUTE THE WORK.
In closing...
That is a major distinction.
Our map was presented as a Site Locations / Community Awareness Map showing the concentration of facilities, projects, conditions, and areas of concern in one Brandywine corridor. Your own accompanying text explicitly said the purpose was to show what individual permits fail to capture: “One community. Multiple facilities. Cumulative burden.”
BrandywineMD .com treated an accountability and cumulative-impact map as if it were a permit-certification map. Those are not the same thing. The map was never represented as a list of only approved or operating data centers or even permitted. It identified facilities, projects, infrastructure, industrial conditions, and areas requiring community and regulatory scrutiny.
One Community. Multiple Facilities. Cumulative Burden.
BTB / ECCB
Brandywine Community Accountability Initiative🚨
