After a years-long campaign by environmental advocates, top Maryland lawmakers want to cut off a program that has paid tens of millions of dollars in green energy subsidies to incinerators.

A Baltimore Banner review found the city has spent tens of millions of dollars since 2022 on three different firms hired to bolster the city’s workforce, and millions more have been committed.

The Maryland Democratic plan, announced Monday, drew pushback from climate advocates who warned about courting polluting fuels like natural gas.

The settlement, announced by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office Tuesday, comes less than a month after he filed a complaint before federal utility regulators calling on PJM Interconnection to impose a lower price cap on its next energy auction.

Annapolis and Anne Arundel argued that fossil fuel giants knew their businesses were driving the damaging consequences of climate change.

Moore joined the governors of Illinois, New Jersey and Delaware in sending a letter to federal utility regulators pointing the finger at PJM Interconnect, the regional grid operator, for a looming jump in electricity rates.

A Day One order from Trump halts new leases and permits for offshore wind development, but one industry analyst said the step signals the president could take even more aggressive steps to roll back recent progress.

President Donald Trump’s plans to sign a raft of executive orders Monday will set a dramatically different tone for the next four years in Washington.

The president-elect has reportedly tasked a New Jersey congressman with drafting an executive order to halt offshore wind development. Just how damaging it could be for plans off the Maryland coast remains to be seen.

The electricity interests behind a proposed power line that would cut through 70 miles of mostly rural Maryland are finding that many residents don’t care much for the idea.

Maryland is trying to force its big buildings to go green, but the owners of these properties are fighting back.

Maryland environmental regulators are suing a Baltimore-based home inspector for illegally certifying dozens of homes as “lead-free.”

With virtually no fanfare, a Greek-based company called Hellenic Cables has started work on a factory that will employ 120 people in an industrial corner of the city known as Wagner’s Point.

Though the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project remains in its early stages, the 70-mile power line has been a lightning rod for months.

The state alleges that the manufacturing company, known for its waterproof Gore-Tex jackets, contaminated the air and waters around its Cecil County facilities with toxic forever chemicals for decades, despite understanding their consequences.

The Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge would protect up to 40,000 acres, potentially establishing the largest conservation area of this kind in the state.

A similar “climate superfund” bill was approved by New York lawmakers in June, while Vermont became the first state to institute a law like this one earlier in the year.

Governors from each of these “big three” states in the Chesapeake watershed — Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania — have not each attended one of the annual executive council meetings in a decade. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro had planned to attend in person Tuesday but backed out at the last minute, instead attending by video.