Article: Ehrlich assailed over his record on air pollution: O'Malley and Duncan say the governor is overly friendly to power industry.

Byline: Tom Pelton

May 31--The two leading Democratic candidates for governor decried yesterday the Ehrlich administration's failure to penalize power plants for violating air pollution laws and pledged to reduce the industry's influence over state government. Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley said Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. was too friendly to the power industry when he appointed three former officials of Constellation Energy, the state's largest owner of power plants, to key jobs at the Maryland Department of the Environment, which regulates the industry's pollution.

"We need to stop the revolving door of people coming out of the industry and ...

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