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Constellation's three coal plants to find new owner by year's end
While Constellation Energy Group has a new owner in Exelon Corp., 450 workers at three coal-fired plants once owned by the Baltimore company are in limbo.
As a condition of its purchase of Constellation last month, the Chicago energy giant has...Tags: Constellation Energy Group, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution
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Baltimore-area exports boom, led by chemicals, computers
The Baltimore region showed nearly double-digit growth in export goods and services in 2010, with room to grow, according to a study released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based public policy organization.
The report, titled "Export...Tags: China, Marketing, Martin O'Malley, Sales, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Obama energy policy: The 'all-of-the-above' lie
In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected. For instance, Mr. Romney charged that, "As...
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wildlife, Joe Biden
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New power plant to be built in Waldorf
Maryland energy regulators Thursday ordered the construction of the state's first new natural gas power plant since the state's electric power market was deregulated more than a decade ago. In a decision questioned by other power producers, the...Tags: Frederick County (Virginia), Civil and Public Service, Marketing, Electricity Production and Distribution, Energy Resources
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Federal agency investigating sand-blasting hazards
For years, the wastes from burning coal and producing copper have enjoyed a second life, used in sand-blasting to remove paint, rust and grime from ship's hulls, storage tanks, bridge trusses and other surfaces. Painting contractors, shipyard workers...Tags: Shipbuilding, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Pneumonia, Human Body, Health and Safety at Work
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EPA air rule industry hates helps Maryland
The new Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring coal-fired power plants to reduce their emissions of mercury and other toxic air pollutants is generating a lot of debate, with environmental and health groups hailing it while industry groups contend...Tags: Mining, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Labor Legislation, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution
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Couple found dead in Fla. coal pile enjoyed riding freight trains
A couple who romanticized and lived a modern-day adventure by riding railroad cars across the U.S. were killed when a train dumped its load of coal at a Florida power plant. Ever since Christopher Artes was a teenager in suburban Maryland, he had an...Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Dyslexia, Theft, Railway Transportation, Learning Disability
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Balt. Co. man, S.C. woman die in coal pile in Fla.
A young man from Baltimore County was found dead Monday morning, buried by a coal shipment in central Florida, police said. Christopher Francis Artes, 25, was found around 5 a.m. at Lakeland's City Power Plant by workers who were unloading coal from a...Tags: Tampa, Baltimore County, Timonium
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Maryland power plant closing to avoid pollution rules
An aging, little-used power plant in Williamsport is slated to be closed later this year rather than meet new federal air-pollution limits, its owner announced Thursday, in what could be a spate of such shutdowns resulting from the controversial Obama...Tags: Environmental Politics, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Politics
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Incinerator pollution is well documented
I am responding to the recent letter by William F. Brandes ("O'Malley right on waste incinerators," Oct. 24) concerning The Sun's editorial on incinerators and the Environmental Integrity Project report on waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators ("Clean...Tags: Environmental Pollution
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A 'virtual power plant' in your home: conservation
I leave the water running while I do the dishes, drive a half-ton truck that gets 10 miles to the gallon and, in the energy hog display that my husband finds most annoying, I move from room to room without turning off lights behind me.
OK, so I also don'...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Disasters, Martin O'Malley, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Power
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The lessons of Blair Mountain and Big Coal
In a typical year, more than one-half of the electricity generated within Maryland comes from coal-fired plants. Most of these plants burn coal shipped from West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In communities all throughout the Appalachian Mountains, the...Tags: Alpha Natural Resources Incorporated, Environmental Pollution, Energy Resources, Massey Energy Company, Mining
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