The Maryland Farm Bureau is asking for the Public Service Commission to pull the plug on a controversial power line project in three Maryland counties.

The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project seeks to run 70 miles of overhead transmission lines through Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick counties.

The Farm Bureau's new motion to dismiss developer PSEG's application for the project says PSEG insisted the project needed to be in service by June 2027.

PSEG admits that the schedule of procedures and reviews means it cannot meet that goal.

The Bureau's filing says in part, "That admission makes clear the application is not merely incomplete, it is no longer viable."

"Back in 2024, we warned that the MPRP project's unrealistic timeline threatens to take productive farmland out of use," the

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