ANNAPOLIS — While most eyes in the debate on fracking are on the Marcellus Shale region in Western Maryland, a smaller gas basin underneath Southern Maryland is drawing a Texas-based energy company’s attention. Shore Exploration and Production Corp. has leased ...

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The developer of the $1 billion Harbor Point project said it has prepared a new air monitoring plan to evaluate levels of toxic hexavalent chromium before and during construction, according to new documents filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the Environment.

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FREDERICK — The Maryland attorney general’s office is threatening to fine Carroll County up to $10,000 a day for failing to implement a fee on property owners to fight storm water pollution draining into the Chesapeake Bay. The state also ...

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Plans for the $1 billion Harbor Point development have been disapproved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency amid concerns over monitoring of toxic waste during construction on the site.

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CUMBERLAND — A Cumberland-based producer of dietary fiber has a new owner after resolving a pollution dispute with the state. The Cumberland Times-News reported Thursday that Fibred and its wastewater treatment facility Mexico Farms LLC have been purchased by International ...

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A request to delay groundbreaking on the luxury Harbor Point project was made Friday by a city councilman who was forced to postpone a scheduled community meeting to address environmental concerns for the $1.8 billion development to go on top of contained toxic waste site because of the shutdown of the federal government.

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The negotiated plan would allow the drilling of about 1,000 pylons through a protective cap covering toxic chromium on the city’s waterfront at the site.

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As city residents and activists work toward against what they say could be potential environmental problems from the construction of the 27-acre Harbor Point development, state and federal environmental officials and the developer are expected to outline some of building plans at a public meeting Wednesday.

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Stakeholders have until Sept. 10 to weigh in on a controversial report on hydraulic fracturing issued this summer by the Maryland Department of the Environment and Department of Natural Resources.

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Three Inner Harbor restaurants will ask the Board of Public Works on Wednesday for permission to modify their dining piers, more than a year after those restaurants decided the state’s asking price for such approval was too high.

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