For more than a year, tensions over a plan to construct a 67-mile transmission line across three Maryland counties — Baltimore, Frederick and Carroll — have rocked the state’s farming communities. Landowners have staked signs along the highway declaring, “No eminent domain for corporate gain.” A court battle has escalated into threatening social media posts and heated confrontations between farmers and land surveyors. Local officials from all three counties have opposed the project, and some have pleaded with state and federal officials to intervene. Few fights have grown as heated as the pushback in Maryland, where PSEG has floated using eminent domain to take farmland from residents who won’t agree to host the new transmission line. After farmers organized to keep PSEG’s land surveyors off their property — and some farmers were accused of threatening the surveyors with guns and dogs — the company asked a federal judge to send in U.S. marshals. The judge did not agree, but the d...