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

Phialdelphia-based Delancey Street Capital said Tuesday it bought the Sail Cloth Factory apartments near the University of Maryland for $12.9 million last month, the firm's fourth acquisition in the area.

Eighteen months after Gov. Martin O'Malley heralded a deal to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay by generating electricity from poultry waste, the company chosen to build the manure-fueled power plant on the Eastern Shore has yet to land a site or apply for permits.

Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Lusby powered down one of its two generating units Thursday night after a leak was discovered in the coolant system keeping the pressurized water reactor from overheating, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday.

Beretta USA, the American arm of an iconic Italian gun maker, said Tuesday that it would move all of its U.S. manufacturing activities from Prince George's County to Tennessee because of the gun control law the Maryland General Assembly passed in 2013.

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.

Ladew Gardens will soon be opening a new butterfly house. The first of its kind in the region, the butterfly house will showcase native plants as well as the native butterflies and caterpillars that depend on them for food and shelter, according to Ladew officials. Ladew Gardens Opens New Butterfly House

Frito-Lay plans to add a parking lot to a large, open site the property owns just outside Aberdeen city limits, across the railroad tracks from its existing plant.

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.

Growing your own herbs and veggies can add health and variety to your cooking, but make sure your soil is free of contaminants.

Looking out toward the shore of Bush River while traveling on Route 40, just south of Aberdeen, is a community that made history 75 years ago. We used to call it Belcamp; now it is called Riverside.

A planned power plant in Fairfield that environmental groups and local schoolchildren have protested faces millions of dollars in fines and has been ordered to halt construction because organizers didn't buy enough emissions credits to offset air pollution the facility will create, according to state officials.

A group of Baltimore youths are calling on the school board to pull out of its agreement to purchase energy from a planned incinerator that will burn waste within a mile of two schools in one of the most polluted neighborhoods of the city.

Steve Sclafani's sports business launched on a shoestring in 1994 and now helps more than 25,000 young athletes reach their goals each year.

Millennial Media CEO Michael Barrett says he sees increased competition from Google and Facebook as a sign that the Baltimore company is doing something right.

A U.S. Court of Appeals panel has upheld a decision that Maryland strayed into federal-only territory when it tried to jump start construction of a power plant with subsidies.

Gardening with native plants

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.

Book chronicles the rise and fall of a worldwide footwear manufacturing center

Yes, rainwater must drain away from a home, but slowly is the operative word.

Nine workers were hospitalized Monday after the roof gave way on a building at the former steel mill in Sparrows Point, disrupting work on the lengthy dismantling of the Baltimore County industrial complex.

A malfunction at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Thursday morning caused an automatic shutdown of one of the two reactors there, the latest in a series of issues at the Southern Maryland facility.

Think sunshine — not just sweetness — when you see the Domino Sugars sign lighting up the Inner Harbor at night.

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.

Harford County's Emergency Operations Center a few miles north of Bel Air was packed Tuesday, as county, state and municipal emergency officials responded to an attack on the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in nearby Delta, Pa.

State regulators gave the final go-ahead Tuesday to Old Dominion Electric Cooperative to start building a new $675 million natural gas power plant in Cecil County.

A local company said Friday that it is teaming up with another firm to build a Baltimore County recycling plant expected to employ about 50 people.

Latest United Nations report details more widespread dangers of climate change that governments and business are ill-prepared to address

Workers at Sparrows Point imploded one of the buildings at the closed steel plant Friday, causing a loud boom that was heard in nearby Dundalk, Baltimore County Police said.

The J.M. Smucker Company has purchased a 175,000-square-foot warehouse next to its manufacturing plant in Havre de Grace for $3 million, according to MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services, LLC, which brokered the transaction.

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) currently has an opportunity to ensure that Maryland consumers are not on the hook to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized electricity that will be generated at Competitive Power Ventures' (CPV) St. Charles facility. The PSC should act in the best interest of Maryland consumers and repeal the subsidies.

Mobile advertising company Millennial Media is plotting a major expansion that includes a deal to dub its headquarters the Millennial Media Center at the Can Company.

Hundreds jump at chance to win one of 1,700 jobs at downtown gaming complex

Savage/North Laurel briefs

Tamarian Carpets has come a long way from 1994 when founder Steve Cibor loaded a few samples of Tibetan rugs in his Ford Explorer and drove for days along the East Coast trying to convince retailers to sell the high-end, hand-woven pieces

Household products maker Sun Products Corp. said Tuesday that it will close its manufacturing plant on Holabird Avenue in Southeast Baltimore, laying off the 300 people there.

If seeing Beretta expand in Tennessee rather than Maryland is the price we pay for sensible gun control laws that protect the public, so be it.

Gun manufacturer Beretta USA announced Wednesday it would build its newest plant not in Maryland, but in Tennessee.

A 24-year-old man fell to his death at the former Seagram's plant in Dundalk this week, becoming the second man to die from an accident at the vacant site since 2012.

Baltimore celebrates New Year's Eve at Inner Harbor and welcomes in 2014

Not only should the proposed incinerator in Curtis Bay not be built so close to Benjamin Franklin High School, it should not be built at all. Calling it a trash-burning "power plant" doesn't make it safe or change the fact that it incinerates dangerous industrial waste.

Members of the Homeland Garden Club will be doing their annual decorating of Johns Hopkins University's Homewood House and Museum for the holidays on Thursday morning. We profile them and tell the public about what's happening at Homewood and Evergreen houses during the holiday season.