energy resources

Last Saturday was meant to be a pleasurable morning (or day) of perch fishing. It turned out to be a bit more of an adventure for Dave Meadows, 51, of Street.

A proposed natural gas liquefaction and export facility in Southern Maryland poses no significant risks to people or the environment, federal energy regulators declared Thursday, though they called for dozens of additional steps to minimize risks from the controversial project.

A Street man was able to rescue a bald eagle tangled in a fishing line Saturday, an incident that ended up being one of three eagle-related calls Maryland Natural Resources Police handled that morning in Central Maryland.

The family of a boy killed after a natural gas explosion has sued Baltimore Gas and Electric, alleging that the company ignored failing pipes that leaked the gas that triggered the explosion.

The Maryland Seafood Marketing Program has started up its fourth season of chef education tours

Supreme Court's support of EPA curbs on out-of-state air pollution is life-saving news for downwind states like Maryland

A petroleum like substance of unknown origin was reported in the Susquehanna River off Havre de Grace late Monday afternoon, officials from the Harford County Department of Emergency Services said.

Members impressed with answers at April 28 meeting

Dr. Torrey C. Brown, the former secretary of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources who banned fishing for rockfish, died of heart disease Sunday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Severna Park resident was 77.

Two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, as the search zone narrowed to the western Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy turned to a contractor in Prince George's County — one of few organizations in the world capable of assisting.

Harford County celebrated Arbor Day 2014 on Good Friday, as volunteers of all ages gathered at the Chapel Road Sports Complex in Havre de Grace to plant hundreds of seedlings and young trees.

A Street resident has the option of pleading guilty to his role in starting a three-alarm field and woods fire April 10 that burned more than four acres and paying a $75 fine, or fighting the charges in court and running the risk of being found guilty and paying a fine of up to $500.

Dry conditions – which were erased with Tuesday's heavy rains – have kept Harford County's fire companies hopping in recent days as they work to extinguish one field fire after another.

Six people were rescued from the cold, choppy Magothy River on Sunday after their small boat was swamped with waves and sank, police said.

Maryland Natural Resources Police continue to investigate the unusual case of a man who was shot while kayaking on a Pasadena creek Saturday night.

Maryland regulators are weighing some of the strictest limits in the country on shale gas drilling, but a scientist Monday suggested they still may not go far enough to protect drinking water wells from contamination by methane leaking from drilling sites.

John Delaney claims to support natural gas but falls short on actual energy policies

A snowy winter kept the state's brush fire season at bay into March, but now Maryland forestry officials are conducting controlled burns to prevent accidental blazes later this spring.

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) announced Monday that it will begin a project in mid-April to upgrade a natural gas main under Wilkens Avenue in Catonsville.

The Cove Point LNG export plan must be stopped.

Supporters and opponents of plans to export liquefied natural gas from a Southern Maryland facility flooded state regulators with more than 60,000 letters Wednesday, the deadline for public comments on one aspect of the proposal.

In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still stagnant economy, President Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point. In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.

Right now, as the drama unfolds in Crimea, millions of Marylanders are facing the possible imposition of new and disruptive gas pipelines and compressor stations across much of their state. The gas would come from controversial "hydraulic fracturing" — or fracking — wells spread across the Appalachian region. It would be piped through Maryland to a massive $3.8 billion "liquefaction" plant for natural gas at a place called Cove Point right on the Chesapeake Bay.

Higher energy use — and rate spikes for some — increase costs, one ripple among many from the unusual winter

Two watermen were fined nearly $1,500 for oyster poaching on the Eastern Shore, the first conviction using a network of radar and cameras the state launched in 2010 to detect illegal seafood harvesting.

Dangers associated with hydraulic fracturing ought to be of concern to all

The success of President Obama's drive to deepen our economic revival depends greatly on the effort to boost U.S. export competitiveness, and nowhere is this more important than for the big new ships needed for growing liquefied natural gas exports. Clearly, the U.S. needs to do whatever possible to keep the Panama Canal work on track.

It's an Olympics of sorts for financial analysts in training. A team of five business school students from the University of Baltimore have advanced to a national round of a global challenge to create the best equity research report about a public company. They will compete Wednesday in Denver with student teams from across North America and South America.

Today, U.S. businesses are moving manufacturing ack to the United States, opening new factories or expanding their existing operations and hiring new workers thanks to the growing abundance of low-priced natural gas. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that the domestic supply of natural gas will surpass demand by 2016. The EIA also says there will be enough natural gas produced in America that we can export some of the surplus with minimal impact on natural gas prices. So,

Federal inspectors found no violations as they delved into Calvert Cliffs' unexpected reactor shutdowns in January, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday.

What will happen to Cove Point when all the natural gas is gone?

Today the comprehensive work being done by departmental staff and contractors to determine whether and how natural gas production from the Marcellus Shale in Maryland can be realized without unacceptable risk to public health, safety, the environment and natural resources is on track. Significant changes to this approach being advocated by some in the legislature are not only unnecessary, but would likely undermine the effort.

Five Queen Anne's County watermen have been charged with illegally taking 51 bushels of oysters from a protected area near the mouth of the Wicomico River in Tangier Sound, Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials said.

An investigation into the fatal fire in an East Baltimore rowhome last month revealed that the incident began with an explosion in the home's basement, according to a report released Thursday.

Federal regulators not meeting their responsibilities with proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal

Acting Natural Resource Secretary Joseph P. Gill's confirmation as the department's permanent chief appears back on track, as a Senate committee Monday approved his nomination after Gill apologized for remarks that angered watermen and vowed to work on closing what he called a "communication gap."

The intermediate appellate court upheld a ruling by a Calvert County judge.

Put money into electrical transmission lines, not oil pipelines for a brighter future

Chairman of Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative Advisory Committee

Proposed Cove Point plant is an outdated concept for a facility Maryland doesn't need

Maryland's Safe-Drilling Advisory Commission can show nearly finalized recommendations for overhauling the regulation of gas drilling, but other major undertakings are still in the works. Together, these unfinished studies form the backbone of a final report due in about 150 days, on Aug. 1. We propose that there is no way to meet this deadline — for good reasons.