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The Obama administration is expected to propose new rules today that would slash the amount of sulfur in gasoline, one of the most significant steps the administration can take this term toward cutting air pollution, people with knowledge of the announcement said. - Jonah Goldberg says refusal to build the Keystone pipeline is a bizarre way for the U.S. to show "leadership."
- Lawrence W. "Larry" Simns Sr., a former waterman and longtime outspoken advocate for the Chesapeake Bay and those who made their livelihood on its waters, died Thursday from bone cancer at his Rock Hall home. He was 75.
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- Health risks from fracking would fall disproportionately on minorities and the poor
- Maryland can foster renewable energy and end dependence on fossil fuels by banning fracking now
- Sen. Zirkin is standing up for the public interest in pipeline dispute
- Pennsylvania's headlong plunge into drilling for natural gas from Marcellus shale formations has produced winners and losers. Businesses catering to the energy industry have opened or expanded, and some landowners who signed leases allowing wells to be drilled on their property have profited. But critics say fracking has polluted wells and threatens the environment.
- Results of study should come before throwing up roadblocks to natural gas development
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- A Baltimore County senator is engaged in a bitter public clash with a giant energy company over its plans to build an underground natural gas pipeline that would run through land adjacent to his Owings Mills home and through the yards of many of his neighbors.
- Bay Program director sees progress toward cleanup but warns it's too soon to declare victory
- After several postponements since last year, attorneys for a developer seeking to build a 198-unit apartment complex at the southwest corner of Plumtree Road and Route 24 – and the residents of the community adjacent to the proposed building site who are opposed to the development – are in the thick of an appeals process before a Harford County hearing examiner.
- Maryland's Clean Marinas program helps encourage marinas to control trash and pollution.
- Nuclear is too dangerous and polluting to compete with green energy
- Bills that would allow a surcharge of up to $2 a month residential natural gas bills to pay for new pipelines and other distribution system upgrades passed both houses of the Maryland General Assembly last week, as most Harford County legislators gave the bills their support.
- No matter the fate of nuclear, Md. should encourage offshore wind power
- Later this month, BGE will implode a 79-year-old natural gas tank at West Cold Spring Lane and the JFX. The steel gas holder — 258 feet tall with a 218-foot circumference — was retired in 1997, and is empty. It would cost millions to repaint and maintain it. A 1,000-foot area that includes the Northern District police station will be cordoned off.
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- 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.
- Tougher standards on power plant emissions in Maryland and eight other states demonstrate that carbon cap-and-trade can work
- Tidewater Yacht Service Center in Port Covington was named winner of the 2012 Maryland Clean Marina contest in the large boatyard category.
- Environmentalists need to admit that we can't fight climate change with turbines
- If President Obama is to get serious about climate change, he must reject Keystone XL pipeline
- Mark E. Stoeckle has been named CEO for Adams Express Co. and Petroleum & Resources Corp., replacing retiring Douglas G. Ober, who had announced last year his intention to step down.
- 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.
- O'Malley recognizes the need to conserve our environment
- Algeria and Mali underscore the continuing threat of Islamic extremism across North Africa
- Department of Natural Resources seeking volunteers to help with educational program
- Gov. Martin O'Malley has proposed funding the state's study of "fracking" for natural gas, ending a two-year legislative standoff over getting the industry to pay for it. He included $1.5 million in his fiscal 2014 budget "to provide citizens, business leaders and policymakers the research and data they need to fully consider the potential economic and ecological impacts of natural gas extraction in Maryland."
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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.
- Police were continuing to look for a man they suspect of jumping off the Conowingo Dam last week.
- U.S. senators are right to protect conservation fund
- State Board of Public Works approves $600,000 grant to improve Stony Run path in north Baltimore and fill in gaps.
- A Calvert County judge brushed aside a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG import terminal at Cove Point.
- Proponents of pedaling Maryland's streets and trails say they've covered a lot of ground to increase bicycling opportunities, but there's also much more to do.
- Divers and rescue personnel searched in the waters around Conowingo Dam Wednesday night for a 56-year-old Havre de Grace man who was reported missing and a possible suicide, Maryland State Police said.
- There's no evidence fracking contaminates groundwater
- Harold Newton Barr, a Baltimore resident and former Army radio operator who announced from a schoolhouse in Germany the death of Adolf Hitler, died at his home Dec. 22 of natural causes.
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- The media landscape has changed a lot in the 25 years since Maryland Public Television aired the first episode of "Outdoors Maryland" in 1988.
- Lawmakers should mandate an industry-financed study of fracking on Western Maryland
