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BGE requests rate increase on heels of last case
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. asked Friday for another rate increase, three months after winning approval for higher charges, and company officials said they expect to seek more in the future. It's the third time in as many years that BGE has...
Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Civil and Public Service, Litigation and Regulation, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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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: Gold Standard Incorporated, Natural Gas, Rentals, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Prices
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Aberdeen Proving Ground to get new water tank, with Aberdeen's help
The Army is moving forward with converting an old building on the Aberdeen Proving Ground into a water source to provide 3 million gallons of water daily, Aberdeen city manager Doug Miller said. The post has one, 500,000-gallon water tank, which has...Tags: Verizon Communications, Aberdeen, Havre de Grace, Water Supply, Plant Openings
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Amtrak rolls out new locomotives for East Coast routes
The first of 70 new energy-efficient locomotives destined for Amtrak's East Coast service rolled off Monday morning from a Sacramento, Calif., assembly line. The locomotives, called Amtrak Cities Sprinters and built by Siemens Rail Systems, will...
Tags: Siemens, Amtrak
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So called energy-efficient light bulbs are bad for the environment.
My husband and I recycle everything possible. We use cloth bags rather than paper or plastic, we are organ donors, we compost our kitchen scraps, and we even take The Sun online rather than waste paper ("Don't save the planet" May 3). But we do not...
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Liberals should not tell people what to do
I am an unabashed conservative, and I love energy-efficient light bulbs ("Don't save the planet" May 3). Why? Because they lower my electric bill. However, I deeply resent liberals telling me I must do this or must not do that because "it is good for me."...
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Why are conservatives skeptical of environmental claims? Solyndra and Fisker
Peter Jensen's editorial on conservatives' attitude toward environmental protection is misleading ("Don't save the planet," May 4). The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stressed the importance of the marketing...
Tags: Solyndra LLC, Environmental Cleanup
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Forest Ridge students learn about sustainable living
Ownership. Understanding. Responsibility. Those are the three major concepts behind greeNEWit's Our Schools initiative, and lessons students at Forest Ridge Elementary School in North Laurel took to heart last week as they celebrated Earth Week....
Tags: Students, Solar Energy, Conservation, Renewable Energy, Teaching and Learning
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BGE customers can get $25 for recycling old air-conditioning units
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said it will give $25 to each residential customer who recycles a working room air-conditioning unit at an event this weekend. The utility said consumers can drop off the room units at two Sears locations, Eastpoint Mall...
Tags: Sears, Dundalk, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Hunt Valley
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Don't save the planet
To the age-old question of how many conservatives does it take to screw in a light bulb, we now have a definitive answer: Just one, but it will take him weeks to chase down a vintage incandescent bulb because he won't touch an energy-efficient one. At...
Tags: Environmental Politics, Radio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Consumers, University of Pennsylvania
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Pitching in to save the bay
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's recently released 2012 State of the Bay Report tells us the health of the Chesapeake Bay has improved 14 percent since 2008. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, we hear...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Bodies of Water, Local Government, Rivers
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Letter: Water a precious resource that should be conserved
I think people should try to conserve water and not pollute it. Water is the primary resource people and animals need to live. Only about three percent of the water on Earth is fresh and there are about seven billion people. If we're not careful, the...Tags: Natural Resources, Catonsville, Conservation
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