alternative energy
- Congressman Harris, my generation is depending on your generation of leaders to rise above partisan politics and combat the challenges that face our nation.
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O'Malley has set Maryland on the right path with renewable portfolio standard - Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler on Wednesday tried to move past the fallout from his secretly recorded comments about his opponent's ethnicity, hosting an environmental policy discussion on the Eastern Shore. Television cameras and reporters met the gubernatorial hopeful, questioning Gansler's remarks that Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown was running for governor on his African American heritage.
- Wind energy is good for the environment and for consumers' pocketbooks.
- Wind and solar aren't viable energy alternatives – and will never be
- Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday Maryland has a "moral obligation" to avert climate change and that the state has been falling short of its ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gases emissions by 25 percent by 2020.
- Maryland must cut electricity consumption, use more renewable energy to meet requirement to cut carbon emissions
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- During his visit to Africa, Lewis conducted an impromptu meeting with the President of Tanzania where he gave Jikaya Kilwete a Ravens cap, according to the charity organizations, WorldServe International and TackleKili.
- The Walmart at Lansdowne Station had over 1,300 solar panels installed last year and now gets a large amount of electricity from them
- Latest climate change analysis offers a ray of hope but not if reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not made a higher priority
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- In terms of cost and safety, nuclear power can't hold a candle to renewable energy sources
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- Renewables cannot solve our energy needs; to seriously address climate change, nuclear energy must be in the conversation
- The Russett Green Committee is holding its annual Green Day event May 4, with 25 exhibitors, featuring green products and technology and electric and hybrid cars.
- Offshore wind legislation makes Maryland the region's leader in pursuing renewable energy
- Legislation that would have phased out millions in ratepayer-financed subsidies for mostly out-of-state paper mills died in a House committee Friday, just a day after the Senate passed a companion measure.
- A phase-out of renewable energy subsidies for paper mills has cleared the Maryland Senate, though with a provision that guarantees the state's only paper plant in Allegany County would continue to receive payments underwritten by taxpayers.
- Maryland ratepayers must not subsidize out-of-state paper companies and their 'black liquor'
- Easter is a time to renew and to approve renewal wind energy
- A bill that would curtail millions in renewable-energy subsidies for mostly out-of-state paper mills comes to the Senate floor Monday, after being killed last week and then revived with a special deal for Maryland's only paper-making plant.
- A deal environmentalists thought had been worked out to stop mostly out-of-state paper mills from cashing in on Maryland's renewable energy law has come unglued, as the state's only paper plant in Allegany County has backtracked on a pledge not to oppose the move in return for being allowed to keep collecting from the state's utility customers for another five years.
- Health risks from fracking would fall disproportionately on minorities and the poor
- In the wake of a lengthy BRAC process that has brought more jobs officials with Aberdeen Proving Ground and the county have established the APG-CSSC Transportation Center to assist the installation's 21,000 employees
- Third time's the charm as Governor O'Malley's ambitious plan to encourage offshore wind power in Maryland moves forward
- Fifty-eight years after it opened in Highland, Boarman's Old Fashioned Meat Market is still, in many respects, living up to the name. But walk out back of the store at the crossroads of Clarksville Pike and Route 216, past a few weather-beaten storage buildings to an open field, and suddenly Boarman's seems less old-fashioned. There stands one of the county's larger solar installations: 10 rows of solar panels cocked at a 30-degree angle to the sun, sending power to an AC converter and
- Legislation to subsidize an offshore wind energy project off Ocean City moved ahead Friday, as the House Economic Matters Committee approved the measure, a priority of Gov. Martin O'Malley and many environmental activists.
- Solar and wind power are no panacea for climate change
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- Part data collectors and part tour guides, the 10 yellow navigational markers that make up the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System have been a hit with the public and weather forecasters since their launch in 2007.
- What will the Town of Bel Air be like five years from now? Ten years from now? A comprehensive plan adopted by the Board of Town Commissioners at the Jan. 22 town meeting attempts to answer these questions by looking at where the town is today, how it is perceived by residents and at where it wants to go in the future.
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- A Western Maryland paper mill and several others in the region have collected millions of dollars over the past eight years by taking advantage of an obscure provision in a state law that is supposed to encourage the development of wind, solar and other renewable energy projects.
- More Sandy- and derecho-like disasters are easy to predict, unless we begin to shift away from fossil fuels now
- Environmentalists need to admit that we can't fight climate change with turbines
- Synergics Wind Energy, which built Maryland's second wind project along a mountain ridge near the West Virginia border, is seeking permits to erect 24 turbines in Garrett County.
- Proposed off-shore wind power will create jobs, lower energy prices
- A confident Gov. Martin O'Malley kicked off Tuesday his latest effort to promote offshore wind energy in Maryland, declaring before a supportive crowd that enough senators had signed onto his bill to get it through the chamber that's thwarted him two years in a row.
- Baltimore city agencies previously attacked energy costs with a series of loosely connected programs funded by a patchwork of grants. But in several months Baltimore will receive its first infusion from a three-year, $52.9 million award for energy innovation, and the process of winning that money transformed scattered programs into what the city thinks will be a much broader and more effective effort.
- WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama began his second term Monday by calling for an end to the rigid ideologies of modern politics but laying out a broad policy agenda more likely to stoke partisan confrontation than avoid it.
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- After being thwarted the past two years by skittish lawmakers, Gov. Martin O'Malley is preparing once again to introduce a bill aimed at planting mammoth wind turbines off Ocean City — and the measure may finally pass, thanks to a shake-up in a committee that stifled it last year.
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- There's no evidence fracking contaminates groundwater
- Wood, humanity's earliest fuel for keeping warm, is being touted these days as the latest thing in renewable energy, a greener, often cheaper way to heat a home or building than burning oil or propane or consuming coal-fired electricity.
- A pioneering regional compact to fight climate change stands at a crossroads, as officials from Maryland and eight other Northeast states meet Tuesday in New York to weigh new limits on their power plants' carbon dioxide emissions.
