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'Green' gas plans offer climate-friendly home heating
Guest blogger“Would you like to buy a carbon offset with your purchase today?” That’s a question you hear more often when you rent a car or buy groceries at MOM’S Organic Markets. Now, you also have that option when you buy natural gas to...Tags: Worcester County, Energy Saving, Global Warming, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gold Standard Incorporated
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A new day for U.S. manufacturing
Remember the 1980s? It was to be the decade of Japanese dominance. A post-Jimmy Carter America would be unable to compete with the efficient Japanese jobs machine. Aging technology, lazy management and high-cost labor would ensure America's rapid demise...
Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Allegheny Technologies Inc., Dow Chemical Co., Energy Resources, Jimmy Carter
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Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy
A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...
Tags: Endangered Species, U.S. Department of Defense, Biology, Punishment, Renewable Energy
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BGE says energy prices on the rise for electricity customers
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said Thursday that energy prices will rise $6 a month for the typical residential electricity customer who doesn't use an outside power supplier, the first jump in energy prices in four years. That rise in costs, running...
Tags: Prices, Parkville, Commodity Markets, Market and Exchange, Energy Resources
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Wind picks up steam
Would you pay a little bit more on your monthly utility bill to help build a wind farm generating as much as 200 megawatts of electricity 12 miles or more off the coast of Maryland? That's really all Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed offshore wind bill...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Martin O'Malley, Energy Saving, Executive Branch, Ecosystems
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Former Constellation CEO Shattuck retires from Exelon — but remains on its board
Mayo A. Shattuck III, who coordinated the sale of two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's power company for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Chicago-based Exelon Corp. didn'...
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Restructuring and Recapitalization, MidAmerican Energy Company, Investment Service, Banking
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'Fracking' brings prosperity, problems to Pennsylvania
Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge. The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Energy Resources, Annapolis, Petroleum Industry
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Transportation Center to open at APG
In the wake of a lengthy BRAC process that has brought more jobs – and traffic – to Harford County, a transportation assistance operation has been set up to help Aberdeen Proving Ground's 21,000 employees find alternative ways to get to work....Tags: Aberdeen, Energy Saving, Conservation, Alternative Energy, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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Dominion wins right to export liquefied natural gas
A Calvert County judge brushed aside Friday a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG...Tags: Justice System, Calvert County, Energy Resources, Sumitomo Corporation, Petroleum Industry
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Architect Cheryl Mohr builds a sustainable home in Edgewater
The architect Cheryl Mohr craves natural light so much that even when the sun is bouncing off the nearby South River and streaming through the 22-foot-tall wall of windows that surrounds her living room, Mohr can't bring herself to lower the blinds....
Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Saving, Architecture, Conservation, University of Texas at Austin
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Maryland can benefit from off-shore wind
Recent letters commenting on wind power don't appreciate the significant benefits offshore wind power will provide — not just for Maryland but all of America. Several land-based wind energy projects are already operating in Maryland, and these...
Tags: Wind Power, Energy Saving, Annapolis, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy
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Say no to Keystone
With the revised route for the Keystone XL pipeline having last week won approval from Nebraska's Republican governor, the geology of North America's most controversial energy project is clear: It has landed President Barack Obama between a rock and a...
Tags: Global Expansion, Energy Saving, Ecosystems, Keystone XL Pipeline, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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