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Review of contested transmission line will stretch to 2027, past grid operator deadline
This marks a significant delay to the timeline requested by PSEG, which had proposed a final decision by the end of March 2026.
The region’s grid operator, PJM Interconnection, said that if new transmission lines aren’t built, the region could suffer rolling brownouts and blackouts as soon as the summer of 2027.
A ‘windscreen’ to shield South Baltimore from coal dust? Both CSX and the community say no.
New requirements to protect South Baltimore residents from an export terminal’s coal dust have left both environmentalists and the facility operator unhappy.
Loaded coal cars are wait to be offloaded at CSX’s Curtis Bay Coal Pier on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
As heat kills more Marylanders, air conditioning is a right for some but not for all
But as summers grow hotter and longer, landlords across much of the rest of Maryland are under no obligation to cool buildings.
Thursday, July 17, 2025 — Victoria Price, of Kensington, recounts some of the horror stories from her time at Charter House, a Silver Spring apartment building that was infamous for broken air conditioning. It was one of the catalysts for the 2020 county law requiring apartment building landlords to provide and maintain air conditioning in good working condition for their tenants.
Trump administration plans to revoke permit for Maryland offshore wind farm
The Trump administration has taken aggressive steps to curtail the offshore wind industry nationally.
AT SEA - JULY 07: A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm on July 07, 2022 near Block Island, Rhode Island. The first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States is located 3.8 miles from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean. The five-turbine, 30 MW project was developed by Deepwater Wind and began operations in December, 2016 at a cost of nearly $300 million.
Cool weather triggers die-off of crabs and fish in Canton area
Along the Canton waterfront Friday morning, a few hundred oxygen-starved crabs and fish bobbed to the surface.
Crabs float on the water along the Baltimore Waterfront Promenade along Boston Street on Friday, August 22, 2025.
Heat death toll climbs to 29, Maryland’s deadliest summer since 2012
High heat in Maryland has killed more people so far this year than in all of 2024.
Baltimore Ravens fans try to beat the heat in the stands during the team’s training camp earlier this month at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
Elimination of EPA solar program to cost Maryland more than $60 million
The Trump administration’s decision this week to ax a Biden-era rooftop solar program will cost Maryland more than $60 million intended to build the local workforce and lower electricity costs for thousands of households.
FILE - Nicholas Hartnett, owner of Pure Power Solar, carries a panel as he and Brian Hoeppner, right, install a solar array on the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky., July 17, 2023.
On Tilghman Island, USDA announces $6M to stem blue catfish invasion of Chesapeake
Tilghman Island Seafood does its part to cull the blue catfish, but the region lost control of the population years ago.
US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and employees at Tilghman Island Seafood, the only USDA-certified blue catfish processing facility on the Eastern Shore.
An inspector cleared 1,500 homes of lead paint risk. Maryland says: Wrong.
An inspection had illegally cleared their home of risks of toxic lead paint, residents learned in the letters.
The unit block of North Eutaw Street is amongst homes affected by the erroneous clearance of toxic lead paint risk.
Maryland will require giant ‘windscreen’ to shield South Baltimore from CSX coal dust
Maryland environmental regulators to impose new restrictions on a coal export terminal in South Baltimore, blocking CSX dust from polluting neighborhoods.
Loaded coal cars are wait to be offloaded at CSX’s Curtis Bay Coal Pier on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
In Baltimore’s hottest new race, ‘experience the suffering of the world we’ve created’
The unsanctioned footrace loops along a particularly scorched stretch of North Baltimore.
Nora Frankel runs north on Barclay St. during the inaugural Baltimore Barclay Marathons, in Baltimore, MD on Saturday, July 26, 2025.
Sport fishing could help cure the Chesapeake’s catfish problem, but anglers need to bite
One scientist hopes his Eastern Shore fishing derby boosts the fish fight.
Louis Held, a Salisbury University undergraduate student, unhooks a non-native channel catfish at the annual Nanticoke River Invasive Fishing Derby in Sharptown on Saturday.
Maryland to EPA: Our offshore wind permit is just fine, thank you
In a letter sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Maryland says the state won’t make the correction requested and doesn’t plan to reissue a permit.
The offshore wind project faces intense opposition in Ocean City, where leaders argue that wind turbines would blight the horizon and hurt tourism.
After FEMA axed aid, is an Eastern Shore town lost to the bay?
If the water overtakes Crisfield, some may stay. But many more wonder: Is a community that experiences costly floods every day still a community?
A man rides his bike in downtown Crisfield, MD on April 26, 2025.
Baltimore’s Harbor Splash canceled after overnight showers
A second attempt at an organized Baltimore harbor swim this summer was called off due to persistent rains, and organizers don’t plan on trying again this summer.
Harbor jumpers leap into the waters of Fells Point during the Harbor Splash 2024 event on 6/23/24 in Baltimore, MD.
Mike Hankin dreamed Baltimore could have a swimmable harbor. He thinks it’s close.
Harbor Splash is a milestone in the vision of Mike Hankin, a Baltimore County businessman and philanthropist who has championed a swimmable harbor for more than 15 years.
Mike Hankin, a Baltimore County businessman and philanthropist.
EPA says Maryland permit for Ocean City wind farm is invalid
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week told Maryland regulators that an air quality permit issued for an offshore wind project near Ocean City was not valid.
Ocean City’s beach on a chilly weekday ahead of Memorial Day weekend.
New Chesapeake cleanup plan comes with soul searching and the Trump effect
The Chesapeake Bay Program is working on its fifth plan to restore the bay by year's end.
An eroded Chesapeake Bay shoreline is seen on Middle Hoopers Island.
‘He said he needs help’: Mourners honor Dontae Melton Jr. after his death in police custody
When nearly 200 family, co-workers and friends came together Saturday at DreamLife Worship Center in Randallstown to honor Dontae Melton Jr., a somber mood was often broken by celebrations of life.
Pastor Markus McAllister delivers the eulogy at Dontae Melton Jr.’s funeral at DreamLife Worship Center in Randallstown on Saturday.
With at least 9 heat deaths, summer is off to a deadly start in Maryland
At least nine people, including two children, have died from heat-related illness so far in 2025 — more than twice as many as this time last year, according to Maryland data.
A man running away from the camera's t-shirt is drenched with sweat.
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