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A limited liability venture that plans to construct a natural gas fired power generating system to serve Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air is seeking a tax reduction deal that all parties say is essential to the economic viability of the project..

Some very big cats may have been roaming the neighborhoods around Abingdon Elementary School in the middle of the night Tuesday into early Wednesday morning, according to an anonymous caller to Harford County's 911 Center.

Exelon officials plan to build two additional natural gas-fired power generating units on utility-owned land off Chelsea Road in Perryman.

The call for the wild is being heard again across Maryland – though not everyone welcomes it.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said that it anticipates its natural gas prices will be slightly higher this winter than they were last year, about $2 more over the entire five-month heating season if temperatures are normal.

Hydrofracking risks outweigh the rewards in Maryland

In what some see as a major test of the O'Malley administration's efforts to strengthen Maryland's Smart Growth policies, state officials are pressing Charles County's elected officials to back off a hotly disputed plan for development that state officials contend would degrade a vital Chesapeake Bay tributary and open up large swaths of farmland to sprawling housing projects.

Maryland's annual black bear hunt went into overtime Saturday, as hunters in Garrett and Allegany counties tried to help the state Department of Natural Resources reach its quota of taking between 95 and 130 bears.

Several candidates for governor — a Democrat and three Republicans — said Friday that they would cut taxes to improve Maryland's image as hostile to business and revive the ailing manufacturing industry.

The practically completed single lane section of the East-West Expressway in Harford County from Hickory to Jarrettsville was opened to traffic. The plan was to eventually extend the road into a two way highway and run from Aberdeen to Hagerstown. In the past few weeks many arrests were made on the new road, which had not yet been opened. Drivers contended that since there was no posted speed limit police had no right to arrest them. In most cases the local courts were quite lenient

An energy company that wanted to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Sparrows Point and an 88-mile pipeline into Pennsylvania has scrapped those plans after a seven-year fight over safety and environmental concerns.

One of the largest urban woodland parks in the eastern United States appears destined to get less wooded. Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. aims to cut a swath up to two miles long through Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park in West Baltimore to replace an aging natural gas pipeline there.

EPA rules governing carbon emissions from new power plants give U.S. a chance to make real progress on global warming

Two new, relatively small residential subdivisions are planned in the greater Bel Air area and members of the Harford County Development Advisory Committee reviewed them Wednesday, not without controversy.

As police investigated allegations that a Maryland fisherman was poaching striped bass, he decided to mount a campaign of witness intimidation in the hope the trouble would go away, according to federal charges unsealed Wednesday.

A Tilghman Island commercial fisherman has been charged with witness tampering and intimidation in a federal investigation into alleged poaching of striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

A broad coalition of environmental and other groups urged Gov. Martin O'Malley Tuesday to oppose development of a natural gas export terminal on the Chesapeake Bay, calling it an unacceptable environmental and safety threat.

Smoke cleared and overheated HVAC unit found to be the cause

Dominion Resources won federal approval Wednesday to export liquefied natural gas to countries that don't have free trade agreeemnts with the United States from its terminal at Cove Point in Calvert County.

Pasadena resident Bill Hubick and Jim Brighton of Easton launched the Maryland Biodiversity Project, an effort to do something no one has ever done — catalog examples of every living thing in Maryland on one website: marylandbiodiversity.com.

Television news producer caught winning fish in late July near Deale

The Green Business Network, which launched in late May, has six businesses certified, including Interior Harmony, LLC Acupuncture and Feng Shui, Double Diamond Construction Corporation, Lowe's in Westminster, Fern Rodkey Electric, Inc., Byrdcall Studio and Northrop Grumman in Sykesville.

Timothy E. Parker, manager of T. Rowe Price's New Era Fund who had announced earlier this year he would be leaving, has decided to remain with the Baltimore-based money manager, the company said.

Harford County received $1.5 million in state grants to buy land easements in the Deer Creek Rural Legacy Area, continuing to make it one of the best-funded legacy areas in Maryland, Harford County's agricultural preservation head said.

The members of Harford County's Development Advisory Committee reviewed a preliminary plan Wednesday to create 21 residential lots on land in the Jarrettsville area.

Maryland should promote natural gas rather than impose burdensome carbon tax

Price is just one factor in shopping for electricity and natural gas

Wind energy is good for the environment and for consumers' pocketbooks.

The body of a swimmer missing since Sunday night in Patapsco Valley State Park was found Monday afternoon in turbulent waters of the Patapsco River just below the Bloede Dam, a spokesman for Maryland Natural Resources Police said.

Search crews with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are scheduled to return to the Bloede Dam in Patapsco Valley State Park this morning to resume a search for a swimmer who went missing Sunday night

The Susquehanna Hose Company of Havre de Grace responded to a water rescue Saturday in which a Delaware man drowned after jumping from a cliff on the Susquehanna River north of Conowingo Dam.

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday Maryland has a "moral obligation" to avert climate change and that the state has been falling short of its ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gases emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

A 75-year-old man apparently drowned while crabbing on the Bohemia River in Cecil County on Monday, officials said.

The body of a man who drowned in southern Anne Arundel County was recovered from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay Tuesday morning.

Energy production and environmental protection need not be mutually exclusive

A new report suggests that a substantial number of U.S. nuclear reactors — including one or both at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland — are at risk of early retirement.

With Maryland weighing some of the toughest regulations in the nation on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, environmentalists and some property owners are questioning whether the rules go far enough to safeguard drinking water, natural resources and the public's health. An industry representative, meanwhile, warned that some proposed rules might be so strict that no company would want to drill in the state.

A Kent County man swam for more than five hours through the dangerous waters of Tangier Sound to save the lives of four family members this week after the boat they were fishing in capsized during a sudden thunderstorm.

The Turtle Derby especially had a robust group of participants despite attempts by wildlife groups to get it cancelled this year, warning of the spread of dangerous viruses from the intermingling of wild turtles.

Baltimore and other major users of energy are turning to "microgeneration," miniature power plants that look nothing like the sprawling complexes that much of the country relies on for light, heat and air conditioning.