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'Green' gas plan offers climate-friendly home heating
Guest blogger(An earlier version of this post included incorrect information about Maryland Gas & Electric, its pricing and whether it offers a "green" gas plan involving carbon offsets. The Sun regrets the errors.) ---------------- (Another in an occasional...Tags: Natural Gas, Home Heating, Energy Saving, Global Warming, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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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: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., China, Natural Gas, Royal Dutch Shell Plc
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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: St. Mary's County, Somerset County (Maryland), Conservation, Punishment, Biology
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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: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Market and Exchange, Petroleum Industry, Parkville
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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: Companies and Corporations, MidAmerican Energy Company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Exelon Corp., Interior Policy
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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: Conservation, Natural Resource Industry, Executive Branch, Government, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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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, Renewable Energy, Conservation, Alternative Energy, Energy Saving
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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: Business Enterprises, U.S. Department of Energy, Judges, Clarence Thomas, Sumitomo Corporation
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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: Conservation, Architecture, U.S. Department of Energy, Shingles, Energy Saving
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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: Hydroelectricity, Regional Authority, Conservation, Martin O'Malley, Alternative Energy
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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: Renewable Energy, Wind Power, Alternative Energy, Energy Saving, Annapolis
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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: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Conservation, Global Expansion, U.S. Department of State, Energy Saving
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