ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 9 -- The Maryland Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The Maryland Department of Agriculture reminds citizens in rural areas to expect an increase in low-flying airplanes or helicopters through Oct. 10, 2023. This is the time of year that farmers enrolled in Maryland's Cover Crop Program are aerially seeding small grains in their fields to help protect water quality in local streams and the Chesapeake Bay and improve their soil's health. "Our  more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 10 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: Governor Wes Moore today announced appointments to the Anne Arundel County Trial Court Judicial Nominating Commission. "I am deeply grateful for the appointees' commitment and desire to serve," said Gov. Moore. "The Anne Arundel County Trial Court Judicial Nominating Commission helps ensure the quality of Maryland's judiciary and will also reflect the diverse makeup of the jurisdictio more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 10 -- The Maryland Department of Health issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: The Maryland Department of Health today announced Strengthening Families in Recovery, a pilot program to support pregnant and parenting women recovering from substance and opioid use disorders. "Pregnant and postpartum Marylanders -- and their families -- deserve everything we can do to help them achieve lasting recovery," said Maryland Department of Health Secretary Laura Herre more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 10 -- The Maryland Public Service Commission issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: The Maryland Public Service Commission has scheduled two public comment hearings for the rate increase request filed by Columbia Gas of Maryland. Columbia Gas provides natural gas distribution services to 34,000 customers in the western Maryland counties of Allegany, Garrett and Washington. Columbia Gas, a subsidiary of NiSource, Inc., has requested an $8.8 million rate inc more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 10 -- The Business Network for Offshore Wind, an organization that expands the adoption of offshore wind energy, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: The Business Network for Offshore Wind, in collaboration with Vineyard Wind, today announced an upcoming Massachusetts session of the Foundation 2 Blade (F2B) training program aimed at empowering underrepresented businesses to successfully enter the growing offshore wind renewable energy supply chain. The th more PR

SOLOMONS, Maryland, Aug. 9 -- The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science issued the following news release: The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) announces a $1 million gift from Brian Hochheimer and Marjorie Wax to establish the Anthropogenic Changes in Estuarine Systems (ACES) Initiative, a five-year project to study chemicals in waterways that could be having harmful impacts on environmental and human hea more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 10 -- The University System of Maryland issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: Jay A. Perman, chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) has appointed--and the USM Board of Regents has approved--the search and screening committee for the president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), one of the university system's 12 institutions. Current UMCES President Peter Goodwin announced earlier this year that he will be more PR