This week House Democrats on the Congressional Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released a report detailing a comprehensive strategy to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report lays…
The Senate Committee on Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs has passed legislation to ban hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") as a means of extraction in Maryland, setting the stage for a statewide…
MACo Legal & Policy Counsel Les Knapp offered amendments to legislation (SB 862) that would require all local governments to hold a referendum on whether natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) should…
A Daily Record article (2017-04-04) reported that Maryland Governor Lawrence "Larry" Hogan signed legislation (HB 1325) that banned hydraulic natural gas fracturing (commonly known as "fracking") in Maryland. From the…
Environmental advocates addressed a standing room only sized crowd at the 23rd Annual Maryland Environmental Summit on January 26 in the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis. The Summit is…
The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) has released its proposed natural gas hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as "fracking") regulations. The regulations will govern exploration, production, and underground injection control related…
A short Daily Record video (2017-01-11) highlighted some of the environmental questions Governor Lawrence "Larry" Hogan, House Speaker Michael Busch, and Senate President Thomas Mike Miller fielded from audience members at…
In a Baltimore Sun op-ed (2016-12-19), Frostburg State University emeritus professor and Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative Commissioner Ann Bristow argued that the only way to protect public health is to ban natural…
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