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For more than 27 years, Donald Elliott has represented Carroll County at the Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis. But that all ended in June when he was defeated in the primary election.

More than three million gallons of raw but diluted sewage spilled into the Patapsco River and Jones Falls during and after Tuesday's near-record downpour, city officials reported Friday.

Green accounted for 2 percent of the new-home market in 2005, according to industry estimates. By last year it had ballooned to 23 percent — nearly a quarter.

A new power plant at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center just got a big boost, with the help of a BGE program.

A protest to stop Baltimore from privatizing its water system — which the city isn't actually contemplating — was misplaced, but concern about the future of the water system was not.

Officials with the Army's Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground and energy supplier Constellation Retail recently signed three-year agreement to explore alternative energy sources for the Harford County Army post as leaders across the military and federal government look for ways to reduce the amount of energy used at their facilities.

If we play this right, the next time there's a problem with not enough energy being produced overseas, it won't be a problem locally, thanks to things like solar panels on rooftops.

Heavy rains shut down several roads and led to water rescues in Baltimore, emergency officials said.

Aberdeen residents and community leaders have plenty of ideas for what the city's future library might look like, and they offered them up during a public forum Monday on the branch's possible redesign.

Now is the time to contact Gov. Martin O'Malley to remind him how important it is to ramp up work by our utilities and state agencies to deliver energy efficiency, which reduces the need to generate electricity with fuels that create the carbon pollution that harms our health and planet. Our state must invest more money, and do so more effectively, especially in our housing stock. Not only will that protect our cherished Chesapeake Bay by reducing pollution, it will benefit households struggling

The State Highway Administration will begin a project Monday designed to upgrade 80 light poles and fixtures on the Route 450 (King George Street) bridge over Severn River, also known as the Naval Academy Bridge, in Annapolis.

Synagro Technologies, a Baltimore-based waste management company, faces grass roots opposition to its application to spread industrial waste as fertilizer over farms in seven Virginia counties. As a result of the backlash, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has delayed signing off on Synagro's plans.

Maryland congressman's innovative plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but shield average Americans from higher energy prices deserves serious consideration

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. says 640,000 customers earned a bill credit last week for cutting back on electricity, the biggest test of a fledgling program aimed at reducing demand on hot days.

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

Temperatures reaching the mid-90s and high humidity are forecast to make it feel like triple digits in Baltimore on Wednesday.

A condominium complex on the Inner Harbor is working to become an iconic part of the Baltimore skyline.

A $60,000 grant from the United Way of Central Maryland will fund HSP's new program to keep families from going homeless

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.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. says its first "Energy Savings Day" of the summer — when customers who voluntarily conserve earn bill credits — will hit on Wednesday.

Saving the bay before it's too late

Construction of two new southwest Baltimore County elementary schools at the sites of Relay Elementary and Westowne Elementary will soon be underway.

The utility is offering a few energy saving tips for summer.

After a lengthy and tepid spring, recent weeks have seen Carroll County begin to taste the summer heat, and then run inside to crank up the air conditioning.

WASHINGTON (AP) ¿ A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber's modest productivity this election season to a near halt.

Smart meters are a scam

Despite early progress reducing Chesapeake Bay pollution, levels of a key pollutant, phosphorus, have not come down in many rivers in the past decade — and are actually worsening in several, officials say.

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.

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.

With five candidates lined up for the race to be the next president of the Harford County Council, county voters will get to narrow down that field in the upcoming primary election.

Climate change threat

BGE says its smart meters are safe and will help customers save money.

Congressional delegation warned project threatens military base.