Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. is asking the Maryland Public Service Commission to approve rate increases for residential and commercial customers’ natural gas distribution and electricity usage.

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Dominion Resources' proposal to build a liquefied natural gas export facility is dividing residents of the quiet town of Lusby on the Chesapeake Bay.

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Dominion Resources' proposal to build a liquefied natural gas export facility is dividing residents of the quiet town of Lusby on the Chesapeake Bay.

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Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas could create as many as 3,600 jobs in far western Maryland in the next decade if state officials allow energy companies to use the extraction technique, according to a Towson University study commissioned by the state.

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A U.S. senator from West Virginia says the natural gas industry plans a pipeline to bring gas from south central Pennsylvania to North Carolina.

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The Obama administration began a process that may result in the first federal regulation of chemicals used in fracking, a drilling technique that has transformed energy production while eluding oversight sought by environmentalists.

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The parents of an 8-year-old boy who was killed following a “natural gas explosion” inside an East Baltimore rowhouse have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

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The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that it welcomes the decision by oil and gas industry supplier Baker Hughes to disclose all chemicals in hydraulic fracturing fluid. But Halliburton, a major competitor in the field, isn't committing to such disclosure.

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Did your bill for heating, cooking or electricity just double or even triple? This winter was brutal on utility rates, driving "spot" natural gas prices up from under $5 per million British thermal units to over a whopping $120 on some days in December and January.

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A looming deadline for a state report on Marcellus Shale drilling should be pushed back, according to environmental activists and members of a state commission tasked with studying the issue.

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