Gov-elect Wes Moore (D) has a laundry list of plans for Maryland. Moore wants to give students an option to be paid to complete a year of service after high school, raise the minimum wage to $15 this year instead of the scheduled increase in 2025 and support small businesses through modernizing the regulation process. One of his focuses, which he discussed repeatedly during his campaign, is to provide free pre-kindergarten for all of the state’s three- and four- year olds in need.

A recent report from the Waterkeeper Alliance revealed U.S. states’ pollution levels of certain chemicals in their waterways — and Maryland’s samples revealed high levels of contamination. The Waterkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit global network of waterkeeper groups aiming for access to clean water everywhere, released a report in October to showcase findings from the past several months about U.S. waterways. The group collected samples from different bodies of water across the country and tested them for specific chemicals called per- and polyflouroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

Under Armour Inc. is setting up shop in N.C. State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh as part of a new partnership aimed at innovation. The Baltimore-based sportswear maker and the university announced Thursday that Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) has opened a center on the campus through a partnership that will see the company invest more than $1 million in research efforts with the university over the next year.