Four in Five Maryland Likely Voters Expect Data Centers to Hurt Electricity Costs, UMBC Poll Finds
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Eighty percent of Maryland likely voters say new data centers will have a mostly negative...
Infrastructure & Utilities
The Case Dan Cox Isn’t Making
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland has a real affordability story right now. Dan Cox just isn't the one telling it...
The $4,000 “Crisis” Is Mostly Sandwiches. The Real Maryland Affordability Story Is in Annapolis.
By Michael Phillips | Maryland Bay News The Maryland Democratic Party wants you to believe Donald Trump personally raised...
Two Regulators, One Gas Company: DC and Maryland Both Weigh Washington Gas Pipe Spending This Week
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Washington Gas is facing scrutiny from utility regulators in two jurisdictions this week,...
Paying Twice: The Federal Deal Costing Maryland Ratepayers Hundreds Of Millions For Two Anne Arundel Power Plants
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every Baltimore Gas and Electric customer — 1.2 million households and businesses across...
Maryland’s Highest Court Kills the Frederick Data Center Referendum — 21,029 Signatures, Zero Votes
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Supreme Court of Maryland on Tuesday ended the largest citizen petition drive in...
Who Pays for the Data Center Boom? In Maryland, the Answer Is Already You.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The question was never whether Maryland wanted data centers. The state answered that years...
Maryland’s Water System Is Breaking Down. Now Come the Data Centers.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland residents served by WSSC Water — the sprawling public utility covering...
Cox Demands Transparency on Soaring Electric Bills, Files MPIA Requests to Moore Administration
By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox announced Thursday that he has filed...
BGE’s $500 Million Peninsula Project Raises Big Questions About Oversight, Cost, and Who Pays
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland ratepayers are once again staring down a massive utility price tag — this time for a...
Hearing Tomorrow: HB 970 Would Redefine Nuclear as “Tier 1” Clean Energy in Maryland
By MDBayNews Staff Annapolis will take up a consequential energy bill tomorrow that could reshape Maryland’s energy...
Maryland’s Priorities Are Upside Down — 55 Dead From Cold, Zero From Immigration Enforcement
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland’s Democratic leadership has once again chosen performance over priorities. Over...
Moore Promises “Affordability” — But Marylanders Are Still Waiting
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Wes Moore testified before the Maryland Senate Finance Committee this week, he framed...
Could the Indian River Power Plant Come Back? What It Would Mean for Maryland
By MDBayNews Staff Talk of reviving the Indian River Power Plant in Sussex County, Delaware, has quietly resurfaced — and...
A $57,000 Power Bill and a Warning for Maryland
By MDBayNews Staff When a third-generation local grocery store is staring at a nearly $58,000 monthly electric bill,...
Maryland Households Face Another Utility Squeeze as Pepco Seeks Major Rate Hike
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland families already grappling with high housing costs, taxes, and inflation may soon face another...
Maryland Energy Warnings Clash With Annapolis Climate Politics
By MDBayNews Staff As Maryland endures winter storms and rising energy costs, warnings of potential rolling blackouts are...
Chalk Point’s Return Highlights Maryland’s Energy Reality Check
By MDBayNews Staff A recent post by J.B. Jennings has reignited a debate Maryland lawmakers have largely tried to avoid:...
Frozen in Time: Baltimore’s Aging Infrastructure Buckles Under Historic Cold
As a historic cold spell grips Maryland, Baltimore is once again confronting an all-too-familiar problem: an aging,...
Sanctuary Politics, Broken Pipes: Montgomery County’s Infrastructure Bill Comes Due
By MDBayNews Staff Montgomery County likes to brand itself as a “sanctuary” jurisdiction—eager to spend political...
When Utility Bills Become a Health Crisis
By MDBayNews Staff For many Maryland households, the shock of higher BGE bills this winter isn’t just a budgeting...
Maryland’s Infrastructure Neglect Comes at a Cost — And the Potomac, and the District Are Paying It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A massive sewage spill pouring into the Potomac River upstream from Washington, D.C....
Western Maryland Flooded in 2025. Action Came in 2026. Moore Points Elsewhere.
By MDBayNews Staff When devastating floods tore through Western Maryland in May 2025, residents in Allegany and Garrett...
Opinion: Maryland’s Utility Shock Isn’t a Market Failure — It’s a Regulatory One
By MDBayNews Staff Marylanders are being told—again—that their soaring BGE bills are the unavoidable result of markets,...
Why Your BGE Bill Spiked in Early 2026 — And Why Annapolis Can’t Pretend It Was a Surprise
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland households — especially across Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and central Maryland — are...
Maryland Weighs Statewide Oversight as Data Center Boom Tests Grid, Communities
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing surges, Maryland is confronting a...
Maryland’s Data Center Boom Is Real. The Accountability Isn’t.
By Michel Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland’s leaders like to frame the state’s data center push as a smart,...