The Baltimore Ravens have vowed to reduce their carbon footprint over the next few years as part of a new deal with Constellation Energy Corp. The NFL team announced the new partnership with the energy giant amid the shouts of hundreds of young athletes at the Ravens Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills during the Baltimore Ravens training camp on Monday. The Ravens and Constellation executives declined to provide firm plans on the exact actions the partnership will yield but noted that such actions could include energy audits and electric vehicle infrastructure.

Several corporate leaders from Greater Baltimore are included on Savoy Magazine’s list of the “Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America” for 2022. Seven of the 337 executives recognized by Savoy in its upcoming summer issue work in the Baltimore area, including two sets of executives who work at the same office. T. Rowe Price’s Chief Operating Officer Kimberly Johnson, as well as the money manager’s head of investment management, Stephon (Steph) Jackson, both made this year’s list. Johnson was hired by T. Rowe in April, becoming the first Black woman in the company’s C-suite.

A campaign finance system that would give some candidates the option of accepting government funding if they only accept small donations could be coming to Anne Arundel County. A coalition of state and local voter groups announced Monday it had delivered a petition with more than 11,000 signatures from county residents — a thousand more than required — to the Anne Arundel County Elections Board to add a question about the proposed charter amendment on the November general election ballot.

Richard Bennett has worked as an usher for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs since the team’s stadium opened in 2008. In that time, he has seen firsthand both the number of fans and the quality of the Waldorf stadium decline. Bennett saw the largest crowds from 2008 to 2010, but over the past couple of years, he said, attendance has been especially low. “It’s always been a struggle to tell people we’re back,” Bennett said. “That’s why we haven’t seen as many fans since COVID hit.” It’s not just the Blue Crabs, one of six minor league teams in Maryland, that are facing this challenge.

A four-property self-storage portfolio in Cecil County has just sold to an investment group for $18.8 million. The deal is the latest in the rural Elkton and North East market where new development of industrial and residential projects is underway, and growth is on the rise. The buyer was Boundary Ventures LLC and the seller was Acorn Investment Co. It is also the latest in the red-hot self-storage market that has posted strong growth across the U.S. over the past two years.

Lidl plans to open a supermarket in Reisterstown on Aug. 31, the German grocer announced Tuesday. The store will open in Reisterstown Shopping Center on Reisterstown Road, part of the chain’s rapid expansion in the Baltimore area. The discount grocer opened its first Baltimore city location July 13 in the redeveloped Northwood Commons shopping center near the campus of Morgan State University. Lidl also operates Baltimore County stores in Catonsville and Nottingham. The food retailer says it offers organic and gluten-free items, specialty foods such as cured meats, private label products, and fresh baked breads and pastries at prices as much as 45% less than other grocery chains.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland made an appearance in West Baltimore on Tuesday night for National Night Out, a yearly nationwide event meant to strengthen relationships between residents and police. Garland talked with community members at Wilson & Etting Park in Upton but did not take reporters’ questions. Police officers mingled with young people, who played basketball and jumped rope while snacking on fresh-cut fruit and food truck nachos at the event organized by Central West Baltimore advocacy group No Boundaries Coalition. Garland later continued his visit at a Western District block party in Sandtown-Winchester.

The U.S. Postal Service will release a new stamp in September celebrating the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope. The Forever stamp, which can be pre-ordered starting August 8, features an image of the iconic telescope and its 18 golden hexagonal mirror segments atop a starry background. The image used for the background was taken by scientists operating the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. It shows the “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula, roughly 7,600 light-years away, said Cheryl Gundy, a spokeswoman for the institute. The institute, located on the Johns Hopkins University’s campus, serves as the mission control for the telescope.

I thank a Baltimore Sun reader who goes by the pseudonym of Curious George for telling me about a certain work of art hanging in a gallery near Patterson Park. But I’m afraid it’s not as “controversial” as he might think. “Is the artwork riddled with bullet holes a problem?” Curious George asked in an email with “controversy” in its subject line. Obviously wise to the notion that controversy provides superb material for newspapers, George suggested that I visit the Creative Alliance and have a look. So, I headed to that good gathering place on Saturday, driving and walking through the busy and thriving neighborhoods of a city that too many other correspondents believe to be hell on Earth — so dysfunctional, violent and corrupt as to make a trip here impossibly risky.