U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said at a news conference Tuesday that the federal government will offer about 80,000 acres off the coast of Maryland for commercial energy leasing.

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WASHINGTON — A huge underwater power line to serve wind farms planned off the East Coast cleared a regulatory hurdle Monday, although construction is still years away. The project, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection, would enable up to 7,000 ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Offshore wind energy, a sixth slots license, funding for a natural gas drilling study and a proposed tax on gasoline could become casualties of a slowly developing budget agreement among state lawmakers. With Monday’s scheduled adjournment of the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — It was an unusual sight Monday night as hundreds of people joined hands and encircled the State House to show support for wind power legislation. More than 400 turned out to push for final passage of Gov. Martin ...

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Legislation that would create a renewable energy credit for Maryland companies that use offshore wind as a certain percentage of their energy generation was passed by a House of Delegates panel on Monday, moving the bill closer to a vote ...

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Offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia took a big step closer to reality with the completion of a review that showed the renewable energy source would not cause major environmental damage, officials said Thursday. Obama administration Interior Secretary ...

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is heading to Baltimore to announce what department officials say is a major step toward developing wind energy off the coasts of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and New Jersey. Details of Thursday’s announcement were not released, but ...

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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is reviving a program that lets Americans who are hiding their assets overseas avoid criminal charges by paying their back taxes plus penalties. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman says that similar efforts in 2009 and ...

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Gov. Martin O’Malley will take another stab at sparking development of a wind energy farm off Maryland’s coast this year with a new spin on last year’s proposal. O’Malley made offshore wind the centerpiece of his energy agenda in 2011 ...

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will cautiously open up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast to oil and gas drilling. The drilling plans are much narrower in scope than what the administration had said it ...

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