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Don't tell Iowa caucus voters, but ethanol is an expensive environmental nightmare, Jonah Goldberg writes. - From wind to biogas, Maryland's Eastern Shore can be a green energy leader — if the terms are right
- Maryland's next governor should embrace environmentally-friendly composting of poultry manure, not the burning of it for energy
- When Joel Meneses, designer at Real Design LLC, was asked to renovate a Fells Point home, he knew he wanted to maintain the fireplaces. ¿Historically, [a fireplace] defines a room as a gathering place and not just a room with furniture in it,¿ he says. ¿It informs the space planning.¿
- The Board of Carroll County Commissioners signed a letter on Thursday stating their intent to join Dorchester and Kent Counties in their efforts to persuade federal and state agencies to allow them to engage in oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.
- The station, A1 Auto Repair, at 3041 Frederick Avenue is offering the blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline that can be used in some 11 million vehicles in the nation.
- Johns Hopkins School of Public Health is working to solve a public health problem, which could help more than 50 percent of the world's population use safer methods to cook. The project aims to decrease the amount of harmful smoke residents of rural communities can be exposed to through using cookstoves in thatched huts with little ventilation.
- There are many other benefits to Marylanders from reducing our dependence on coal-fired power plants that we need to fully understand so that we can enthusiastically support new measures to reduce carbon emissions and speed up their adoption.
- With the help of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students who have spent years stringing bits of DNA together, scientists have built the world's first synthetic yeast chromosome, an advancement that could help production of drugs, vaccines, biofuels and even beer.
- Crime in Towson, Timonium Cockeysville Jan. 16-28
- The Perryville town commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to accept a settlement with the Maryland Department of the Environment, under which the town will pay $58,576 in penalties for violations at the municipal wastewater treatment plant during 2012.Perryville
- Biofuel policy is costing U.S. too much in food prices and jobs
- Our ability to break our dependence on foreign oil is threatened by the effort to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard.
- A Howard County startup is trying to prove that its algae bioreactors are an answer to greenhouse-gas pollution.
- Baltimore and other major users of energy are turning to "microgeneration," miniature power plants that look nothing like the sprawling complexes that much of the country relies on for light, heat and air conditioning.
- Biodiesel is good for the environment and no threat to livestock farmers
- Your holiday cookout is costing more, thanks to the high price of diverting corn to ethanol production
- A Perry Hall man was sentenced Friday to 12.5 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $42 million in restitution after being convicted of selling $9 million worth of fake biodiesel fuel credits.
- 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.
- If a tree falls in Maryland's forests — even if no one hears it — researchers soon will have a handle on how much it could contribute to global warming.
- AAA wants sale of E15 blocked for now
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- Drought-related corn prices shouldn't be used as excuse to step back from renewable energy
- Corn-based ethanol fuel won't solve our energy problems
- Attacks on U.S. biofuel industry are inaccurate and unwarranted
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- Drought, low corn yield force reconsideration of the Renewable Fuel Standard for ethanol
- With drought-fueled corn prices threatening to clobber consumers, it's time to ease the federal ethanol mandate
- Biodiesel producers told a congressional panel Wednesday that they're struggling to stay afloat in the wake of fraud cases uncovered in Baltimore and Texas, and a spokesman for petroleum refiners faulted the Environmental Protection Agency for slow response to a crisis he said has cost the industry $200 million so far.
- Construction at the Shell on the 900 block of Frederick Road to make underground tanks more compatible with gasoline-ethanol blends.
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- A federal jury convicted a Perry Hall man Monday of wire fraud and money laundering for selling $9 million worth of bogus biodiesel credits to unsuspecting commodities brokers and oil companies in a case that has shaken the nation's renewable fuel industry.
- The defense lawyer for a Perry Hall man accused of fraudulently selling $9 million worth of fake renewable fuel credits portrayed him Monday as the fall guy for an unworkable federal energy program that others were scamming as well.
