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Del. Don Dwyer Jr. (R-District 31) was charged Thursday with five offenses connected to an August boat crash that sent him and six other people - including four children - to the hospital. - Six people have been charged since the start of this month with illegally catching striped bass in federal waters more than three miles off the coast of Ocean City, according to the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
- Environmental activists met at the University of Baltimore Saturday to organize a push for a legislative ban on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — casting the issue as a fight pitting the little guys versus the lobbyists.
- A new study predicts that exporting the nation's cheap, seemingly abundant supplies of natural gas will boost the U.S. economy, giving a nudge to prospects for shipping liquefied fuel abroad from a nearly idle terminal in the Chesapeake Bay.
- Some Dundalk area residents are concerned about the Maryland Port Administration's designs on Sparrows Point, fearing the state's long-range plan to convert a corner of the old steel-making complex into a supercargo shipping terminal could literally dredge up the point's toxic legacy in the Patapsco River. An "emergency" community meeting has been called for Thursday, Dec. 6 in Edgemere.
- 15,829 whitetails taken so far this year compared to 17,613 in 2011
- Marlin Steel Wire Products is one of the country's fastest-growing companies. What makes that all the more notable is it's a manufacturer. In Baltimore.
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- Raising natural gas production in Maryland could prove costly in the long-term
- Maryland should not embrace LNG and the environmental harm posed by more fracking
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said Friday that winter heating bills for its residential customers who use natural gas will likely rise 11 percent over last year due to colder weather — still low enough to come in at the second-cheapest winter of the past decade.
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- Md. renewable-energy program addresses often-ignored wood and pellet stoves
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- 64 year old sailor suffered head, neck and back injuries
- With an increase in the number of permits given out and a record number of bears killed during last month's five-day Maryland black bear hunt came another high mark — arrests made for illegal baiting and other violations.
- The candidates won't discuss a warming planet, but Hurricane Sandy filled in the silence
- Implosion planned for early 2013; film commission alerted for possible movie plot tie-ins
- All-electric cars aren't yet a viable alternative to our current fleet
- Leading opponent of Md. fracking overstates her case, has political motives, and ignores economic realities
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- Debate over 'fracking' tests 40-year pact with environmental groups
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- Explanations of actions regarding zoning approval don't ring true
- Proposed fracking study reveals Del. Heather Mizeur's anti-business attitude
- The Board of Public Works is expected to put 22 companies on notice Wednesday that they must show they are not investing in Iran's energy sector or be disqualified from doing business with the state.
- The gas industry is undermining efforts to study environmental effects of controversial drilling practice.
- Environmentalists back lawmaker's bid to formally ban hydraulic fracturing in Maryland until environmental impact studies are completed.
- For the eighth straight year since the contest was established, no anglers caught the special Diamond Jim striped bass worth a $25,000 prize.
- Howard County is working on what officials call its "infrastructure," but the project doesn't involve bulldozers, road crews, or loads of steel and asphalt. This "infrastructure" of woods, fields and waterways existed before there was a county — the task now is to keep it.
- A plan to add five homes to James Street, north of Bel Air's Vale Meadows, left many area residents perplexed at a development advisory committee meeting Wednesday.
- Rescue crews search for missing boater near Gibson Island
- A proposed new reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland faces a major new roadblock, with federal regulators threatening to shelve the troubled $9.6 billion project unless the French-controlled developer comes up with a U.S. partner in the next two months.
- Charges are expected to be brought within a week to 10 days against the owners of a Forest Hill home where as many as 150 animals, both dead and alive, were found following a fire late Monday night
- 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.
- A 52-year-old man was missing Tuesday night after last being seen swimming in Frog Mortar Creek near the Bowleys Quarters area of Baltimore County, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
- 40 cats and one dog found dead following house fire on Rocks Road in Forest Hill late Monday night.
- Del. Donald H. Dwyer, Jr. had been drinking when a motorboat he was operating in the Magothy River collided Wednesday with another motorboat
- Appeals court's rejection of EPA cross-state air pollution rules a big blow to clean air efforts
- Back to school for Harford County Public Schools students this Monday also means the resumption of school bus service for the majority of them.
- Gas industry group disputes Chesapeake Bay Foundation video alleging air pollution from "fracking" wells and other facilities
