Thanks for your work RJ. My kids aren’t getting any AI toys this Hanukkah or anytime soon. www.today.com/video/why-ai...

Guilty pleas, $100K fine for Skyline Tower Painting for a 2022 tower-washing project that showered TV Hill with hazardous lead paint. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

BGE is charging customers billions under the banner of safety for a program that may actually be delaying the work to replace, repair the riskiest cast iron pipes.

Fast-Tracked and Flawed: New Analysis Finds BGE’s $19.5 Billion Gas Pipeline Program Fails to Prioritize Safety, Drives Up Costs pirg.org/maryland/fou...

Every time BGE tears up Baltimore’s streets to replace pipes, they make more money. Don’t take my word for it, take their most recent public earnings statement – BGE’s 3rd quarter profits increased by 82% since last year… 1/4

BGE choosing ‘wasteful’ gas pipe replacement projects, consumer watchdog says

Maryland PIRG’s new analysis finds BGE’s multi-billion dollar gas pipeline replacement program may be slowing the work to repair or replace the riskiest pipes. A 2025 law could result in major changes moving forward to stop wasteful spending & require BGE to prioritize safety. bit.ly/pirgreport

The Maryland Public Service Commission is moving forward with regulations to end a policy that forces existing gas customers to pay the cost of building pipelines for new customers- ending an outdated process the drives up customer costs and increases utility profits. pirg.org/maryland/fou...

Two more good decisions from the IIlinois Commerce Commission... STATEMENT: Regulators slash Nicor, Ameren rate hikes pirg.org/illinois/med...

Maryland utiility regulators are using their new authority to ensure Washington Gas' pipe safety spending priritizes safety and is cost effective pirg.org/maryland/upd...

An explosion of state-supported infrastructure spending by utilities caused the increases, leading many states to reconsider, restrict, or roll back their policies. Read more: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Thanks to MD PSC (www.psc.state.md.us), gas corporations can no longer unfairly charge existing customers big $ to add new customers--saves customers $1B in hidden fees & helps reduce the $1.3B in annual health costs due to gas burning equipment in MD.

Natural gas customers will save $1 billion over the next decade under a new Maryland policy that puts that cost where it belongs, writes Emily Scarr, on the utilities, which now earn $3 from existing ratepayers for every $1 spent hooking up new homes. marylandmatters.org/2025/09/27/a...

PJM “is stifling the development of clean energy, setting the rules for the capacity market, forcing energy prices up and continuing to marginalize the voice of the very states it serves,” writes Paul Pinsky www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/20/p...

“Why should residential customers be responsible for costs being driven by some of the biggest and wealthiest corporations in the world?" "PJM policies have restricted supply, with a backlogged queue for energy projects, many of them renewable"

“Maryland is power hungry and you’re paying the price on your utility bill,” writes @briaovers.bsky.social. Huge batteries are a potential solution. But projects to build them have mostly stalled and run out of juice. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/clea...

Some updates on the MD PSC proceeding on “the future of gas.” pirg.org/maryland/fou...

Curious about PJMs electricity rate auction this week? There’s a lot still being reviewed but here is a thread of some good reads.

I love this piece from @briaovers.bsky.social explaining the role and history of the MD PSC. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/mary...

🚨 COMMENTS ARE DUE TOMORROW – July 23rd! 🚨 Sick of skyrocketing utility bills? Take action NOW to tell Maryland’s utility regulators to require gas pipeline spending to prioritize safety AND be cost effective to slow the increase of our utility bills: bit.ly/mdgassafety @emilyscarr.bsky.social

PJM's attitude towards ratepayers and elected officials within its territory has been off-putting to say the least. I'm impressed with this op-ed by David Lapp at the Office of People's Counsel in MD, which I think makes the argument very persuasively: www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-ceo...

Gov. Wes Moore and a bipartisan coalition of other state executives urged the operator of Maryland’s electrical grid to select tenured leadership and to make policy changes to mitigate skyrocketing utility prices. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/07/18/g...

Surging data center demand and sluggish clean energy growth are converging as PJM, the largest power grid operator in the U.S., awaits capacity auction results. Customers across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest will be affected.

🔥 CO just passed a hot new law. Retailers now have to #PutALabelOnGas: “Understand the air quality implications of having an indoor gas stove.” Cooking dinner shouldn’t come with a side of benzene, asthma, nor air pollution— we deserve to know what’s in our homes: leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1...

A little reminder that BGE hazardous gas leaks have increased over the last decade. www.baltimoresun.com/2024/09/27/s...

“Developers have an incentive to think big. Utilities have a huge incentive to think big,” explains People’s Counsel David Lapp in this story on development and utility capital spending.

“Those who point to (electricity) imports as evidencing a reliability issue also fail to grasp — or intentionally misrepresent — that average import levels don’t matter,” explains Maryland OPC www.baltimoresun.com/2025/07/07/m...

The group, led by @zekecohen.bsky.social gathered outside BGE headquarters and pressed the Maryland Public Service Commission to bring an end to multiyear rate cases, which let utilities apply for several years of rate increases at a time. marylandmatters.org/2025/07/04/b...

Today I joined @zekecohen.bsky.social to deliver petitions to BGE and the PSC asking them to end BGE’s wasteful spending and stop the relentless rate hikes. Unfortunately BGE refused to accept the petitions.

Baltimore City leaders call for end of BGE's 'Operation Pipeline' program, multi-year rate hikes

Utilities like to say they have no control over supply costs and don’t profit off of them, but neither is exactly true. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/29/b...

If the bill becomes law, New York would join California, Colorado, and most recently Maryland, in eliminating subsidies for gas line extensions statewide. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...


What's really driving up your electric bill? www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/19/w...

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

In MD, a worker smelled gas and tried to alert BGE. His calls went unanswered & minutes later, the home blew up. The same type of issue was also behind a 2019 explosion. BGE promised to fix it by the end of 2023. But new details reveal 440 of these dangerous trenches are still unrepaired.

Maryland utility regulators end subsidies to connect new gas utility customers: Subsidies no longer show clear benefit to utility customers. pirg.org/maryland/fou...

“It is misleading to assert that the capacity market results are simply just a reflection of supply and demand,” the report states. www.wusa9.com/article/tech...

"As a mom, I feel like I have to be a scientist, looking at everything I introduce my child to. It should absolutely come with a warning label. I'm very annoyed it doesn't actually." Lexie is not wrong. NY legislators are voting to #PutALabelOnGas. Show your support at putalabelongas.com.

Discussions about rising energy costs dominated the 2025 legislative session. But even higher bills are on the way, starting this month. The changes were years in the making, and won't be gone soon, experts and advocates say. marylandmatters.org/2025/06/05/u...

$700/hr to argue for higher utility profits. Maine's new bill LD 1949 would cap how much of these rate case costs utilities can pass on to customers. More from @charliespatz.bsky.social ⤵️ 🔗 energyandpolicy.org/maine-bill-p...

Between the increases on BGE’s delivery charges and now the supply-side rise, ratepayers are being hit with a “double whammy,” on their energy bills.

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Gas is inherently dangerous but this is beyond the pale. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/05/29/n...

Maryland residents are about to see higher charges on their energy bills unless federal regulators take action, state lawmakers say.

A group of former Baltimore Gas and Electric workers say the utility aims to silence their efforts to disclose problems with gas pipeline inspections by seeking to hold them in contempt of court. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/05/21/f...

Always enjoy talking to @jemillerbalt.bsky.social - if you haven’t listened or subscribed to her new Maryland politics podcast, you should.