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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: Potomac Electric Power Company, Energy Saving, Natural Resources, Civil and Public Service, Frederick County (Maryland)
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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: Companies and Corporations, Plant Closings, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution
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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: Baltimore County, Tampa, Timonium
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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, Labor Legislation, Benjamin L. Cardin, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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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, Mitt Romney, Elections, Conservation, Energy Saving
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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, Unions, Maryland, Metal and Mineral
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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: Litigation and Regulation, Pneumonia, Human Body, Shipbuilding, Cancer
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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: Germany, Japan, Energy Saving, Disasters, Chesapeake Bay
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Coal: An industry America can't do without
Those in government who could make a difference have turned their backs on an industry that this nation cannot do without. The coal industry supplies the energy that keeps the lights on for half the nation, and it is an industry that does not need a...Tags: Mining, Elections, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Metal and Mineral
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EPA rule seeks to curb long-distance air pollution
In a sweeping move aimed at curbing long-distance air pollution that afflicts the health of 240 million Americans — including Marylanders — the Environmental Protection Agency is ordering power plants across much of the eastern United States...Tags: Demographics, Regional Authority, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Pollution
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Pizzeria plays with (coal) fire
Coal Fire could be just another pizza joint. But its location — albeit storefront — in the Ellicott City development of Shipley's Grant gives it a certain cachet. So does the fact that the pizzas, which you can see being prepared in the open...Tags: Ellicott City, Caesar Salads, Pasta, Pepperoni, Lettuce
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