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- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake leads the money race against potential future political opponents with more than $350,000 on hand, a review of the most recent campaign finance reports shows.
- The state has contracted with a Baltimore-based nonprofit to help low-income families in the suburbs improve the safety and energy efficiency of their homes.
- Maryland hasn't had a new power plant of any significance built in over a decade — one reason it imports more electricity than almost any other state, racking up extra charges for consumers. But now new plants are coming.
- Continuing the Obama administration's push to launch a U.S. offshore wind industry, federal officials announced Wednesday that they'll auction off the rights next month to build turbines off Maryland's coast.
- Silicon Valley software giant Oracle Corp. announced a deal Monday to buy Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, eyeing the Columbia firm for its niche supplying technology to hotels, restaurants and retailers around the world.
- Kenneth W. DeFontes Jr. will retire as Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s president and CEO at the end of the month, after nearly a decade at the helm of Maryland's largest gas and electric utility provider.
- A global law firm with origins in Baltimore was one of five Maryland-based business to make HRC's list of top workplaces for LGBT equality
- The addition of apartments to Beatty Development Group's planned Exelon Corp. tower at Harbor Point took another step forward after a city panel recommended qualified approval Thursday for its design.
- Baltimore's Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel questions aspects of a new plan by Beatty Development to build 103 apartments where office space was originally planned at the Exelon Corp. building at Harbor Point.
- A suspicious substance was reported found in packages at the downtown headquarters of Constellation Energy Group on Tuesday morning, police and fire officials said.
- Grand Prix aims to prove city without Fortune 500 company can support growing sports scene
- T. Rowe Price, which has been a fixture in downtown Baltimore since its founding 76 years ago, is considering moving its headquarters once its current lease expires in 2017, the company said Wednesday.
- Exelon gave about $7 million to Maryland charitable causes in the 12 months since it acquired Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group, the same as Constellation had in recent years. That was the deal — literally.
- Mayo A. Shattuck III, who helped sell two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's energy firm for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission upheld a decision Monday preventing a French company from building a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Southern Maryland, but it offered a glimmer of hope to the project's proponents.
- Baltimore city agencies previously attacked energy costs with a series of loosely connected programs funded by a patchwork of grants. But in several months Baltimore will receive its first infusion from a three-year, $52.9 million award for energy innovation, and the process of winning that money transformed scattered programs into what the city thinks will be a much broader and more effective effort.
- The regional headquarters planned at Harbor East for energy giant Exelon Corp. would rise 23 stories and 350 feet, helping to reshape Baltimore's skyline with a futuristic glass structure, under a preliminary design approved Thursday by a city advisory panel.
- Where do some big donors from Maryland donate? Super PACS
- The CEO pay disclosed this year by the 20 largest publicly traded companies in the Baltimore region offers plenty of fodder — as it does every year — to steam the ranks of workers with paychecks that barely budge.
- The melody of the president's voice, the intensity of his movements gripped Jeremy Brickey's attention, cutting through the monotony of freshman orientation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
- Federal regulators on Thursday denied a license to the French-controlled operator of a proposed third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Southern Maryland, giving the company 60 days to find a U.S. partner before terminating proceedings on the project entirely.
- In an unexpected move, the city's historical preservation commission on Tuesday took a small step toward removing the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre from a list that provides the property limited protection from demolition.
- Environmentalists paddled kayaks along Dundee Creek Saturday to call attention to the recent sale of three local coal-fired power plants they say should be shut down for polluting the air. Jan Hoffmaster of Millersville, the outings chairman for the Maryland chapter of the Sierra Club, told a team of the organization's volunteers they were on a three-part mission: "Enjoy, explore and protect."
- Exelon Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to sell its three Maryland coal-fired power plants for $400 million to a company owned by energy private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC.
- Exelon cut about 170 jobs in Maryland earlier this summer, just over half through layoffs and the rest through voluntary buyouts, the energy company said Monday.
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. is seeking to raise distribution rates for electricity and natural gas, a move that would add about $11.80 a month to the median residential bill.
- The state outlined Friday how it proposes to spend the $113.5 million that Exelon Corp. agreed to put in a "customer investment fund" as part of its merger with Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s parent.
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. plans to submit a case to Maryland regulators by the end of the year that would allow it to raise its electric and naturak gas distribution rates, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., the utility's new owner, said Thursday.
- People can't make informed investment decisions unless corporations disclose the financial risks they face from climate change
- Baltimore made the newest Fortune 500 list by the skin of its teeth — with a company that was based here last year but is now part of an out-of-state concern.
- Chicago-based Exelon Corp. reported Friday a 70 percent drop in quarterly profit due to warmer-than-normal winter weather, lower power prices and costs related to the acquisition of Constellation Energy Group.
- Just four months before high-speed cars are set to whirl through downtown streets, the IndyCar Series is seeking a new team to take over the Baltimore Grand Prix.
- Constellation Energy Group's three Maryland coal-fired plants are to be sold by the end of the year.
- Mayo A. Shattuck IlI -- who successfully engineered the sale of Constellation Energy Group to Chicago-based Exelon Corp. – took in $17.3 million in total compensation last year, a nearly 11 percent increase from 2010.
- Human Genome ultimately rebuffed a $2.6 billion offer by biopharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline Plc, saying it was too low – though it has put itself on the market. Catalyst agreed to be acquired by a larger Illinois competitor for $4.4 billion.
- BGE's 1.1 million residential customers will get a nice surprise in their May bill when they see a $100 credit on their accounts.
- IndyCar executives met with Baltimore officials Monday to discuss the future of the company planning the city's Grand Prix — and whether the leader of the group should depart.
- It really makes one wonder what kind of state we live in when the legislature can plow through 90 days without passing the new budget.
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- Maryland energy regulators have ordered Exelon Corp. to explain how the company "inadvertently" violated some conditions related to its merger with Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group.
- Downforce Racing, the new operator of the Baltimore Grand Prix, missed three of five benchmarks that it agreed to have complete by March 15 under its contract with the city, a city official said.
- Constellation Energy Group, Baltimore's last Fortune 500 company, also settled a federal investigation into market manipulation as Chicago-based Exelon Corp. closed its $7.9 billion takeover on Monday.
- Q&A with Howard Miller, head of Baltimore's Center Club, which celebrates its 50
- Constellation Energy Group's proposed sale to Chicago-based Exelon Corp. cleared its final regulatory hurdle Friday, approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
- Constellation Energy Group, which is being sold to Chicago-based Exelon Corp., will be replaced on the S&P 500 index by a Houston wireless company.