ANNAPOLIS — The oil and natural gas industry spent more than $1.4 million to influence Maryland lawmakers during this year’s General Assembly session. But lobbyists still lost their fight to allow fracking in Maryland. The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday that the ...

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  OKLAHOMA CITY – One of the most important advancements for the modern oil and gas sector has become a household curse word. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is crucial to producing petroleum and natural gas and transformed the U.S. industry ...

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  Third in an occasional series on rural Maryland Editor’s Note July 19, 2017: An earlier version of this story used an incorrect name for a manufacturing plant that once operated in Allegany County. The plant was run by the Celanese ...

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The Maryland Senate gave final approval Monday night to legislation that bans a controversial natural gas drilling process.

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You can't take the politics out of politics, and at least part of Gov. Larry Hogan's comments Friday when announced his support for a fracking ban that were directed at Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. left Sen. Robert A. "Bobby" Zirkin bitter.

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ANNAPOLIS — Competing bills that ban fracking or extend the current moratorium on the controversial natural gas extraction process are both likely headed to the Senate for a vote. Sen. Joan Carter Conway, D-Baltimore City and chair of the Education, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — As lawmakers debate banning fracking or extending a moratorium on the practice, one powerful Senate committee chairwoman said the final decision may come down to politics and votes. The debate over fracking this year comes as the state ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Support for forest protection and opposition to hydraulic fracturing sparked two different rallies Wednesday, just before the House Environment and Transportation Committee heard testimony on three related bills. Two of the bills would ban and criminalize hydraulic fracturing, ...

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In the Jan. 11 Annapolis Summit co-hosted by The Daily Record, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. said that fracking “affects two counties where there are no jobs whatsoever.” Presumably Miller was referring to Garrett and Allegany counties, which ...

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The debate over a ban on fracking in Maryland moves to the 2017 General Assembly session even as a legislative committee debates delaying proposed regulations for the controversial gas extraction process. Members of the joint Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee ...

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