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A full-fledged Environmental Impact Statement ought to be required for the proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal

The recent publication of Elmer J. Hall's "A Mill on the Point: One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Steelmaking at Sparrows Point, Maryland," marks the last of a quartet of books chronicling the industrial and social history of eastern Baltimore County's once heavy industrial peninsula.

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a second natural gas-fired facility to generate electricity in Cecil County.

Howard County is set to begin work this week installing about 740 photovoltaic panels at its Little Patuxent "water reclamation" plant in Savage. The $1.5 million project will generate just a fraction of the power needed by Maryland's fifth largest wastewater treatment plant.

Maryland's manufacturing job losses — the result of cutbacks, shutdowns and technological innovations requiring fewer people — are among the nation's steepest. Advocates say it's not too late to reverse that.

The developer planning to build a new waterfront headquarters for Exelon Corp. on the site of a former chromium processing plant assured Fells Point area residents Thursday night the Harbor Point project could be built safely without releasing the highly contaminated soil and ground water entombed beneath the site.

In 1932, after his father went broke during the Great Depression, 17-year-old Melvin Berman hitchhiked from Florida to Baltimore to work in his uncle's dairy store.

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

A new government report raises questions about the consistency of federal nuclear power plant oversight, noting regional disparities in the frequency with which plants - including Maryland's Calvert Cliffs - have been cited for safety problems or violations.

Even as some Fells Point residents worry that building over toxic soil at Harbor Point could endanger their health, records show elevated levels of cancer-causing chromium in groundwater just beyond the site targeted for an upscale development.

On the whole, however, given that Harford County probably has sufficient capacity to produce water and treat sewage, even as some of its communities are lacking capacity with regard to one or the other, a consolidated system is a good idea – as long as it can be kept in check.

A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional an arrangement approved by state regulators to allow construction of a new power plant in southern Maryland, an effort to increase locally produced energy before tight supply causes reliability problems.

A monument that stood alongside Dundalk Avenue for two decades, recognizing Sparrows Point steelworkers killed on the job, was moved to a county park to give it a new lease on life as the union local that commissioned it shuts down.

The future of the Simkins Mill in Catonsville is still unclear but Maryland DNR hopes to absorb it into Patapsco Valley State Park

The developer planning to build an office tower at Harbor Point agreed Wednesday night to hold another public meeting on the controversial project after Fells Point residents who showed up for an open house there demanded a more formal discussion of the safety of developing the former chemical plant site.

Martin Aircraft employed thousands of women in the effort to win World War II

The owner of the former General Motors Corp. factory site in southeast Baltimore has applied for a city permit to build a huge warehouse that would employ up to 2,600 people, according to documents filed with the city's planning department.

Panda Power Funds, a private equity firm based in Dallas, said Monday that it plans to build and operate a power plant in Brandywine.

Visiting Nemours and Winterthur

Baltimore's Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved a massive $263 million contract for constructing a new facility aimed at curbing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

Construction of a disputed trash-burning power plant in South Baltimore began this week on the 160-megawatt facility, meeting a state-imposed deadline, the company spokeswoman said.

A Howard County startup is trying to prove that its algae bioreactors are an answer to greenhouse-gas pollution.

John Franzone Jr., founder of a Hunt Valley headquartered plastics manufacturing company who also was a flying and thoroughbred race horsing enthusiast, died Friday from heart failure at his Timonium home. He was 93.

Domino Sugar spent decades focusing on the inner workings of its Baltimore plant — the parts with a direct impact on refining and transporting sugar. Now it's forking out money on beautification, about $250,000 so far.

Virginia Thorndike designed her garden as a spiritual retreat, positioning plants in ways that draw on ancient religious practices. Laid out in a half circle, the garden is bisected by a waterfall that ends in a pond at the base of a hill.

Aberdeen firefighters and Harford County HAZMAT personnel responded to an incident at a Clorox manufacturing facility on Perryman Road Sunday morning.

The "big aggressive bumble bees" that were swarming in Fallston and Jarrettsville were identified 25 years ago this week. Reg Traband, the county's extension agent, said they probably weren't bees at all, rather they were "June beetles" or large Cicada-Killer Wasps."

A major part of the Washington Surburban Sanitary Commission's system is Rocky Gorge Dam, which was renamed in 1967 after T. Howard Duckett, one of the founders of the WSSC. Construction of the dam was necessary to keep pace with the expanding population in the region.

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.

A2Z Environmental Group began demolition on the old Simkins Paper Mill in Catonsville around June 4

Woodberry Kitchen's Spike Gjerde part of project to bring commercial kitchen and farm to abandoned East Baltimore site

The bankruptcy that led to the Sparrows Point steel mill's closure upended the lives of thousands in the Baltimore region. Two former steelworkers — and the family of another — on hardship and unexpected happiness in the first year after steel.

Robert M. Douglass, who had been chief engineer of Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, died Monday from cancer at his Port Republic home. He was 88.

The Army is moving forward with converting an old building on the Aberdeen Proving Ground into a water source to provide 3 million gallons of water daily, Aberdeen city manager Doug Miller said.

Though this year's Earth Day has come and gone, Hillcrest Elementary School is continuing the green movement through both new and old programs

Western retailers can improve safety conditions for workers in low-wage countries and still make a tidy profit

Mitchell Feaga, a seventh-grader at Glenwood Middle School, loves bikes. The 12-year-old also realizes that for all kids a new bike isn't always a possibility.

With the swipe of an excavator, a demolition crew began taking down the abandoned Solo Cup factory in Owings Mills on Thursday, work that will clear the way for new development that was once threatened by opposition.

General Motors officially launched its new electric motor in White Marsh Tuesday, a milestone in domestic manufacturing — and a key part of the company's bet that the electric-vehicle market is poised to grow.

Factory Grill at Savage Mill features pulled pork, cupcakes and more

It's the time of year when I probably ought to be thinking about gardening, but this year I'm thinking about not gardening.

Offshore wind legislation makes Maryland the region's leader in pursuing renewable energy

Waste to energy projects may provide a solution for the over-abundance of phosphorous-rich manure in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.