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The first residential solar co-operative in the Baltimore metro area was launched last week.

As dozens of supporters and opponents looked on, Maryland's top elected officials gave a key approval Wednesday to developing a natural gas export facility in southern Maryland that some fear could threaten nearby residents' safety and the environment.

Workers with BGE are in the midst of building a new four-mile pipeline in the north-central part of Harford County in order to meet growing demand for natural gas in Harford.

An 11-mile underground natural gas main running along Route 27 in Carroll County will be completed in early 2015, according to Baltimore Gas and Electric spokeswoman Rachael Lighty.

Exelon Generation broke ground today (Monday) on two new power-generating units at its Perryman generating station, calling it an expanded focus on natural gas and clean energy.

The Obama administration took a step closer Friday to allowing oil and gas exploration off the mid-Atlantic and south Atlantic coasts, drawing praise from the energy industry and criticism from environmentalists.

Exelon plans to break ground Monday on two new power generating units off Chelsea Road in Perryman.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources imposed new rules and regulations on water jet pack businesses in Ocean City and elsewhere to keep thrill-seekers safe.

Three people have died in Maryland waters in as many days, and a U.S. Coast Guard search is underway for another who went missing Monday

Two dozen protesters were arrested in Washington Monday after they blocked entrances to the federal commission reviewing a proposed natural gas export terminal and liquefaction plant in Southern Maryland.

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.

A proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Calvert County could put nearby residents at "significant risk" if a fire or explosion occurs at the facility, according to a British consulting firm hired by opponents of the project to review its hazards.

Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police are in the process of recovering a body found this morning along Weems Creek in Annapolis.

You haven't heard the last of Heather Mizeur

The body of a swimmer who had gone missing at Patapsco State Valley Park on Friday was recovered on Saturday, officials said.

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.

Two businesses and a park were evacuated when an underground natural gas line caught fire Tuesday afternoon, Baltimore County officials said.

Oklahoma, which rarely saw earthquakes, now tops all 50 states in the number of tremors per year because of fracking

The Maryland Natural Resources Police spent the weekend patrolling the state's most-trafficked waterways for drunken boaters in a nationwide policing event, "Operation Dry Water," as they prepare for the throngs that will be out over the upcoming Fourth of July weekend.

Anne Arundel County voters will chose between Republican Steve Schuh and Democrat George F. Johnson IV for their next county executive.

Thomas D. McKewen, a materials recovery and waste management expert who was the founding director of Maryland Environmental Services, died June 13 of congestive heart failure at his home in Ashburn, Va. He was 86.

A five-member team of students from Carroll County's Venturing Crew 202 won the 24th annual Maryland Envirothon — an outdoor natural resources competition that challenges students to identify and categorize living resources, perform soil surveys and solve other complex natural resource issues.

Tucked amid the woods of northern Baltimore County is one of Maryland's natural gems – the Big Gunpowder Falls, a nationally renowned trout stream that draws anglers from far and wide to try their skills and luck in the cold, rushing water.

WASHINGTON -- Environmental advocates say a spending bill set for review in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday could reopen a fight over whether the Environmental Protection Agency may regulate pollution entering small headwater streams that feed into larger bodies of water, including the Chesapeake Bay.

The Obama administration announced on Tuesday an initiative to track every fish sold in the United States — a move designed to crack down on illegal fishing, mislabeling of seafood and related problems.

Cove Point plant threatens nearby residents' health and safety

A Severna Park man was arrested Sunday for police impersonation while intoxicated at Taco Bell.

As the nation enjoys a boom in crude oil production and grapples with the heightened risks and logistical constraints of moving ever-increasing volumes of the volatile commodity through its cities and towns, two companies in Baltimore appear to be carving out a new local foothold for the industry.

Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against a couple who were found livid with their children aboard a cold, filthy sailboat in the Magothy River this winter.

The gunshot wound suffered by a Virginia man while kayaking in Pasadena in April may have been self-inflicted, Maryland Natural Resources Police said Monday.

Energy company Dominion said Monday that it formally accepted Maryland regulators' conditions for their approval of a power plant the company needs to export liquefied natural gas from its Cove Point complex.

Robert Matysek, of South Carolina, died after an apparent cardiac arrest approximately one mile into the 4.4-mile Great Chesapeake Bay Swim on Sunday.

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in shallow water in Patapsco Valley State Park in the Brooklyn Park area on Wednesday.

The Democrats running for governor traded barbs over Maryland's economy, marijuana laws, and the troubled rollout of its health insurance exchange Monday night in their final televised debate before a primary in which pundits suggest many voters are still undecided.

The Park Service's decision to close a parking lot off Jones Road in Gunpowder Falls State Park in Maryland to curb overuse of natural resources draws criticism.

A proposed natural gas export facility in Southern Maryland moved closer to reality Friday, but state regulators ordered the terminal's owner to include more safety and environmental protections for the controversial project, and to donate $48 million to promote clean energy in the state and to help poor Marylanders pay their power bills.

A judge in Cambridge has upheld Maryland's curbs on catching menhaden, rejecting claims by a pair of watermen that the restrictions were unconstitutional.

On Wednesday, 35 members of North Harford High School's Class of 2014 will have the additional distinction of being the first graduating seniors to complete the school's magnet program, Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences.

Water rescue teams are searching for a missing kayaker in the Susquehanna River near Conowingo Day early Monday afternoon.

Two Kent Island men were found dead in the Chesapeake Bay Saturday morning after their small boat apparently was swamped with water, Natural Resources Police said.

A car ran into a gas station near BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Thursday afternoon.