ANNAPOLIS – Energy companies and environmental groups agreed on the benefits of clean, renewable energy, but when it came to defining what it was, everything fell apart

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ANNAPOLIS – Eastern Shore lawmakers who make up the Blue Crab Task Force blasted the Department of Natural Resources Friday for using shoddy science and “make-believe” numbers to overstate the danger to the state’s blue crab population

ANNAPOLIS – With tons of snow sitting on frozen ground, and forecasts calling for rain and several days of above-40 temperatures, Maryland Emergency Management Agency officials worry that the state could be facing a repeat of the 1996 floods

ANNAPOLIS – After a several week delay over security concerns, a longtime Santa’s quest for lawmakers to sign holiday greetings for troops overseas was granted Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Trying to reverse the damage done to the Chesapeake Bay’s disease-ravaged oyster stocks, one legislator hopes to speed the introduction of a fast-growing, disease-resistant Chinese oyster to the bay

ANNAPOLIS – Emissions of two common pollutants from coal-fired power plants would be capped starting in 2008 under legislation proposed Tuesday by a Bowie delegate

ANNAPOLIS – Clear Skies, a new federal air pollution initiative, would mean $3 billion in health and other benefits for Maryland, Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Whitman told Maryland officials Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – Watermen who started power dredging for oysters under new state regulations Monday found an unpleasant surprise in their nets – dead, rotting crabs

ANNAPOLIS – When the comments were counted, the total was five to one against starting a bear hunt, but the Black Bear Task Force voted to recommend one anyway when it met Thursday afternoon