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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: Energy Saving, Rentals, Home Heating, Global Warming, Worcester County
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Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy needs
Dan Ervin's commentary on lifting restrictions on U.S. companies supplying nuclear power equipment abroad is completely misleading ("A nuclear opportunity," May 6). Nuclear energy is not, as Mr. Ervin says, pollutant free or carbon free. Government...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Environmental Pollution, Waste
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A nuclear opportunity
Companies supplying components for the nuclear power industry are located throughout the United States, including a number in Maryland. These manufacturing firms have developed businesses providing components and equipment required for the maintenance and...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, U.S. Department of Commerce, Nuclear Power, Globalization, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Fracking is not the answer for U.S. economy
Apparently, columnist Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. doesn't understand the difference between manufacturing and mining or mineral extraction ("New day for U.S. manufacturing," May 5). While manufacturing is sustainable as long as there is a demand for the...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Metal and Mineral, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Mining, Natural Resources
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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: Trade Balance, Methanex Corporation, Plant Openings, Commodity Markets, Allegheny Technologies Inc.
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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: Market and Exchange, Petroleum Industry, Energy, Parkville, Prices
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Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel makes recovery
Trapped in a steel cage barely big enough to hold her, the large squirrel was not happy, pawing at the bars and trying them with her teeth. Matt Whitbeck and Cherry Keller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were glad to see her, though. The furry...
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Chincoteague (Accomack, Virginia), Dorchester County, Annapolis, Conservation
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Not all aboard capsized fishing boat wore vests
A preliminary report on the deaths of two anglers on the opening day of the Chesapeake Bay rockfish season says all six persons aboard the boat that capsized off Point Lookout had life vests, but not all wore them, according to the Maryland Natural...
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Hypothermia, Fishing, St. Mary's County, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Two dead after boating accident on Chesapeake Bay
Two people died and four were rescued in a boating accident on the Chesapeake Bay Saturday when their 25-foot boat capsized two miles south of Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary's County, according to Department of Natural Resources Police. Sgt....
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, U.S. Coast Guard, Accidental Death, Hypothermia, St. Mary's County
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Drop in Bay's crab population to bring new catch curbs
With a new survey finding the Chesapeake Bay's crab population at its lowest level in five years after a poor spawn last year, Maryland officials announced Friday they would move to tighten catch limits on the region's iconic crustacean. The annual...
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Aquaculture, Annapolis, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Chesapeake Bay
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O'Malley picks Annapolis veteran as new chief of staff
Gov. Martin O'Malley picked an Annapolis veteran Thursday to oversee the waning years of his administration, appointing as chief of staff a man who has worked under four governors and earned respect in the environmental community for his candor....Tags: Anthony G. Brown, Natural Resource Industry, Annapolis, Conservation, Martin O'Malley
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DNR secretary named governor's chief of staff
The Baltimore SunGov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday named the head of Department of Natural Resources as his new chief of staff. John R. Griffin, 66, will take over for Matthew Gallagher, who will leave the administration at the end of May to lead the Goldseker...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Corporate Officers, Martin O'Malley, Government, Executive Branch
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