ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen says Pepco should not receive a 4 percent rate increase until the utility makes meaningful progress on reliability. Van Hollen made the recommendation Thursday, a day before a deadline for the Maryland Public ...

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The Maryland Public Service Commission will conduct public hearings on the widespread power outages the state suffered during a storm. The legislative-style hearings will review utilities’ outage event reports. They are set for Sept. 13 and, if needed, Sept. 14. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Two Maryland state senators urged state regulators on Thursday to fine Pepco and Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. more than $100 million each for the long power outages residents suffered during and after a powerful summer storm that ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland state senator wants to stop allowing utilities to charge a fee to cover storm-related losses, even after many customers had to go without power for days. Sen. Brian Frosh, D-Montgomery, said in an interview Thursday that ...

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Report card season continues for the General Assembly, and the Maryland League of Conservation voters barely passed lawmakers following their performance in 2012. Here’s a few other headlines: MarylandReporter.com reports on regulations for upgraded septic systems, and the consequences of ...

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WASHINGTON — Nearly a week after deadly summer storms struck the mid-Atlantic area, tens of thousands of residents still remain without power. At 4 p.m. Friday, Pepco was reporting about 4,948 outages on its website. Most of the outages were ...

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Maryland’s power companies are restoring electricity more promptly than they expected to, said Maryland Public Service Commission Chairman Douglas R.M. Nazarian, almost a week after an unexpected storm put more than 1 million people in the dark.

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Utility workers were working Thursday to return lights and air conditions to hundreds of thousands of people who remained without power after last week’s violent storms, even as more strong storms moved in. The number without power was dropping, but ...

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Chris and Kit Burton were honored as donors and volunteers of the year at St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore’s annual Celebration award dinner May 30 at Loyola University Maryland. Chris and Kit Burton give of their time, talent and ...

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Jeannette M. Mills, vice president of customer operations and chief customer officer for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. has been elected to the board of directors of the Esophageal Cancer Action Network. The mission of the Baltimore-based national nonprofit organization ...

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