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Renewable Energy

Maryland’s General Assembly is paying closer attention to communities that have borne the brunt of pollution and other environmental injustices. Senate President Bill Ferguson…

Texas is suffering under its worst winter storm in history, and millions of homes are without power this week. The images are stark, the…

I read with interest the article in Maryland Matters last week describing Senator Hough’s crusade against waste-to-energy’s participation in the state renewable electricity portfolio…

It comes as no mystery to Serenella Linares that Latinos have been sidelined by the mainstream environmental movement. “For the longest time, it was…

As 2020 came to a close, the owners of the decades-old Morgantown coal plant in Charles County announced they would deactivate the plant by…

Clean Power

Under Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, the federal government not only blocked efforts to address the climate crisis but aggressively expanded the fossil fuel…

Senate Minority Whip Michael J. Hough (R-Frederick) tried a new approach Wednesday in his years-long effort to change the official state classification of a…

A Senate committee on Wednesday began discussions on a sweeping climate action bill, which would require Maryland to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60%…

Thousands of Marylanders have fallen behind on their utility bills – and advocates worry that many don’t know they might qualify for government energy…

Chlorpyrifos

The Senate decided Tuesday to indefinitely postpone the vote to override a bill that would ban chlorpyrifos, which means that Republican Gov. Lawrence J….