text:  An environmentally focused upgrade to Maryland's electric grid will require 70 new miles of overhead power lines across the counties and may require the seizure of private property through eminent domain. Well, that doesn't surprise me. Listen, I'm reminded of something. One of the giants in both the literal and figurative sense of the private conservation movement, R.J. Smith, scholar at CEI, later at the National Center for Public Policy Research. He passed away a couple months ago.