WASHINGTON — The director of the Oscar-nominated environmentalist documentary “Gasland” was arrested Wednesday for filming a hearing on fracking, a natural gas extraction technique, led by U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee. Filmmaker Josh ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin is calling for an end to the preferential treatment of corn-based ethanol and responsible development of alternative energy sources. The Maryland Democrat made the comments Monday after participating by phone in a Delaware poultry summit ...

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PITTSBURGH — The huge, belching smokestacks of electric power plants have long symbolized air pollution woes. But a shift is under way: More and more electric plants around the nation are being fueled by natural gas, which is far cleaner ...

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CUMBERLAND — Two western Maryland counties that sit atop the Marcellus Shale geological formation are urging the administration of Gov. Martin O’Malley to quickly approve safe drilling for natural gas. The Cumberland Times-News reports that all six county commissioners from ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The commission tasked with advising Maryland on possible shale gas production supports a change in the law that would make it easier for landowners to bring claims against drillers regarding water contamination and other damages near hydraulic fracturing ...

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Constellation Energy Group of Baltimore, which is in the process of being sold to Chicago-based Exelon Corp., announced that it has agreed to purchase Oneok Energy Marketing Co. of Tulsa, Okla., a retail natural gas marketing company with 26,100 customers. ...

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MYERSVILLE — Maryland’s two U.S. senators are asking federal regulators to pay close attention to residents’ concerns about a proposed natural-gas compressor station near Myersville. The letter from Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin follows similar letters by county officials ...

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An environmental group said Wednesday that infrared video shows air pollution streaming from natural gas sites that have been sprouting up across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation said it sent the videos to the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland lawmakers are starting to debate how much “severance tax” should be imposed on the natural gas that might be produced from the Marcellus Shale rock formation in Western Maryland. Though it is not clear when, or even ...

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WASHINGTON — Critics have blamed hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for environmental disturbances including landscape degradation, air pollution and groundwater contamination — conditions that may affect the health of surrounding areas. But the jury is still out on whether these claims ...

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