Despite ambitious emissions goals, the state is failing to track and regulate fossil-fueled backup generators. The creeping data center boom will make a bad situation worse, advocates warn.By Aman AzharWhen thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilled into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor from Johns Hopkins Hospital on June 4, it didn’t just contaminate the waterfront and threaten aquatic habitat. It also cast a spotlight on a deeper, largely overlooked problem: Maryland’s continued dependence on fossil-fueled backup generators.

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