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State energy regulators to consider reliability standards
The next time Ana Ferguson and her husband lose power for an extended period, they will be prepared. The Pikesville couple bought a generator after five nights without electricity in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
"We had to do it because we can't...Tags: Public Officials, Real Estate, Hurricane Irene (2011), John Kelly, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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A big build for city schools
No heat in the winter. No air conditioning in the summer. Windows painted shut since the 1950s trap stagnant air that triggers infections and asthma attacks. Broken water fountains sit rusted outside crammed, crumbling classrooms.
The U.S. Constitution...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Energy Saving, Colleges and Universities, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Renovation
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Incinerator poses serious health risk
Jay Hancock's recent column ("This waste-to-energy plant could be model for Md.," Sept. 11) leaves a false impression that the Energy Answers (EA) incinerator project planned for Baltimore is a worthy, benign renewable energy project. Children in the...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Energy Saving, Benjamin Franklin, Plant Openings, Renewable Energy
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Energy Answers incinerator project would put the health of thousands of Baltimore residents at risk
Columnist Jay Hancock's effort to take another journalistic swipe at BGE and Constellation Energy leaves the impression that the Energy Answers incinerator planned for Baltimore City is a benign, renewable energy project worth Marylanders' support ("...Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Parochial Schools, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Human Body, Brain
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O'Malley's slipping grades on the environment
It's less than two months into the school year, and Gov. Martin O'Malley's grades have already slipped a little. He was marked down last week to a B+ from his usual glowing environmental marks by the Maryland League of Conservation Voters, largely on...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Renewable Energy, Executive Branch, Energy
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Questions every ER patient should ask
You're in an emergency room. You're worried. OK, maybe that's an understatement. Maybe you're terrified. This may not be the setting in which you always make your best decisions. But you won't get to take back any of the decisions you make in an ER, so...Tags: Internal Medicine, Health and Medical Professionals, Spinal Disc Herniation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Internists
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Lutherville: Thinking Day will help mark Girl Scouting 100th birthday
Girl Scouting will celebrate its 100th anniversary on March 12, celebrating how Juliette Lowe brought scouting to Savannah, Ga., to start this wonderful program for girls in the United States. Our local Girl Scout Service Unit will celebrate Thinking Day...Tags: Culture, Methodist, Lent, Healthy Diet, American Legion
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NRDC report ranks Maryland fifth for power plant pollutants
Electric power plants that burn oil or coal in Maryland sent more than 27 million pounds of toxic pollutants into the air in 2009. That was the fifth-highest total in the nation and a threat to public health, according to a new report by the Natural...Tags: Mining, Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Pollution, Physical Conditions, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland)
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Abingdon man first in the U.S. to get synthetic trachea transplant
Doctors in America told Chris Lyles a cancerous tumor on his windpipe was inoperable, but he and his family wouldn't take no for an answer.
They wrote surgeons all over the world, pleading for someone to take his case. Then during an Internet search,...Tags: Music, Harvard Bioscience Inc., Concerts, Health Treatments, Cancer
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WellDoc set to raise $5M to expand mobile apps
Health care technology company WellDoc Inc. is close to raising $5 million from individual investors that will allow it to expand its mobile applications for disease management. WellDoc, based in Baltimore, developed a mobile phone-based application that...Tags: Diabetes, Diseases and Illnesses, Technology, Cancer, Physical Conditions
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Rand Paul is a doctor, so why is he trying to harm the public health?
Regarding "Pollution bill defeated" (Nov. 11) the defeat of this brazen, immoral, un-Christian, unconscionable attempt by tea party Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., to block EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule of July 2011 deserved greater emphasis than a tiny...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Heart Problems, Democratic Party, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mining
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Where you live can help determine your health, studies say
Sabrina Oliver looked forward to good schools and safer streets when she moved her family from her crime-ridden and trash-strewn West Baltimore neighborhood to the suburbs, but was surprised to discover another benefit as well — a dramatic...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Parkville, Employment Opportunities, Diabetes, Physical Conditions
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