A Federal Court Just Admitted the Piedmont “Emergency” Might Be Fake. It Let PSEG Bulldoze Your Land Anyway.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Part of The New Land Wars series Charlotte Hetterick runs an organic farm in Carroll...
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Maryland Lawmakers Move to Bar Power Line Surveyors From Private Property During Hunting Season
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland lawmakers from both parties are advancing legislation aimed at protecting private property...
Burnett Warns Montgomery County Against ‘Piecemeal’ Data Center Policy
By MDBayNews Staff A growing debate over data center development in Montgomery County is exposing sharp divisions over land...
Residents to Rally at Winchester Hall Over Massive Data Center Expansion Concerns
By MDBayNews Staff Residents in Frederick are planning a rally at Winchester Hall to protest what they describe as a...
Carroll County Lawmakers Push Back Against PSEG Land Access: “No Approval, No Trespassing”
By Michael Phillips The Carroll County Delegation of the Maryland General Assembly has formally demanded answers from...
Trump’s America and the New Land War: Federal Judge Grants PSEG Access to Private Property Without Consent
By Michael Phillips In a blow to private landowners and local government oversight, a federal judge has ruled in favor of...
Stop the Creep: Why Frederick County’s Data Center Overlay Is a Red Flag for All of Maryland
Frederick County was supposed to be the firewall. The hold-the-line county. The place that would manage high-growth energy...
Eminent Domain or Exploitation? What Colorado’s Land Grab Means for Maryland’s MPRP and Property Rights
By Michael Phillips In Brighton, Colorado, a quiet farm just became ground zero for a very loud warning shot: the...
The Green Lie: How Corporations Are Bulldozing Maryland Under the Banner of Climate Progress
Part of The New Land Wars series They call it clean energy.But there’s nothing clean about bulldozing forests, slicing...
Sacrifice Zones: How Rural Maryland Was Marked for Corporate Expansion and Didn’t Even Know It
By Michael PhillipsPart of The New Land Wars series You may not have heard the term sacrifice zone.But if you live in rural...
Ripped from the Roots: The Human Toll of Maryland’s New Land War
Part of The New Land Wars series Kevin Daniels doesn’t sleep much anymore.Neither does his wife, nor their two teenage...
The New Bully Tactic: How Energy Companies Are Suing Maryland Families Just for Saying No
When Kevin Daniels told the energy company's surveyors they couldn’t walk onto his Frederick County farmland, he thought...
Maryland Pays, Virginia Plays: How an Energy Project Is Sacrificing Maryland Land for Northern Virginia’s Big Tech Boom
When Joanne Frederick first saw the survey stakes hammered into the edge of her family's Frederick County farm, she thought...