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Higher energy use — and rate spikes for some — increase costs, one ripple among many from the unusual winter - Legislation that could kill a $200 million wind energy project on the Eastern Shore is moving through the General Assembly, pushed by Southern Maryland lawmakers who contend the 600-foot tall turbines threaten their region's most important job generator, Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
- More of Maryland's leaders need to join Sen. Ben Cardin in speaking out on global warming.
- A Smart Meter fosters an experiment in energy efficiency.
- Scientists predict climate change will mean more extreme . We have two chief responsibilities to help ensure our city and our residents can "weather" the coming storm. First, we have a moral obligation to do everything we can to limit the activities that contribute to climate change — to help prevent the worst impacts. Second, we must prepare to adapt to the climate change effects we are already experiencing.
- Crowded stage at Charlestown Retirement Community
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- When it comes to agriculture, the polluter-pays concept is discarded, and agriculture is instead offered hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to do what it ought to be already doing to reduce pollutant loads. Why is Gov. O'Malley giving the bay's biggest polluters a free ride on the backs of taxpayers and their own contract growers and farmers?
- Hundreds of acres of Maryland farmland protected from development at taxpayer expense could be turned into wind or solar energy farms under legislation before the General Assembly.
- Maryland legislators on Wednesday allocated $4.8 million to complete the renovation design plans for Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Central Library.
- Dull though the subject matter may be, it would be hard to overstate the potential impact on Harford County's of a consolidated, countywide water and sewer system.
- Greenspring Energy customers say firm didn't pay them for solar credits it sold on their behalf
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- It has been more than nine months since commissioners adopted their FY2014 budget and the board took its first significant step Thursday on how it should use the $200,000 environmental fund.
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- Susan Aplin worked behind the scenes for two decades helping run some of the biggest retail brands around– Williams Sonoma, Sports Authority, Staples, The Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Pottery Barn. But after traveling to Alaska's Prince William Sound, she found her true calling – retail with a cause and online retailer bambeco, seller of sustainable home furnishings, was born.
- Consumers in market for new appliances can cash in on some savings this President's Day weekend if they opt for energy-efficient models.
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- Clean Currents, a Silver Spring-based provider of renewable energy for residents and businesses, said Friday it has stopped serving customers after rising wholesale electricity prices in the recent-cold snap caused the company to default on payments to its supplier, electricity grid operator PJM Interconnection.
- Building LNG export facility at Cove Point will mean thousands of jobs and billions of revenue
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- The bitter cold is forecast to subside Friday, with more warmth this weekend, but officials are maintaining calls for preparedness and warning of expensive utility bills with nearly two months of winter to go.
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- Eastern Shore officials and conservationists have kicked off a project with four communities — Cambridge, Easton, Salisbury and Snow Hill — to help leaders in those places find ways to use energy more efficiently and with less impact on the environment.
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- Nitrogen pollution from Maryland sewage plants and industries increased in 2012, partially undermining gains the state has made in prior years in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, the Environmental Integrity Project reported Thursday. The Washington-based group noted that the state's facilities collectively discharged more than 300,000 pounds of hte bay-fouling nutrient that year than they were legally permitted to do.
- 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
- The polar vortex covering most of the nation is still over the Harford County area, and while the wind has died down, it's still cold outside, prompting a late arrival at schools Wednesday and a local power company to ask customers to conserve energy.
- Natural gas pipeline is not the responsible nor most cost-effective solution to Maryland's energy needs
- Howard County's wastewater arrangement with NSA is a win-win for taxpayers and not a missed opportunity to rein in surveillance
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- Q&A with Clean Currents' co-founder Gary Skulnik about the renewable energy business and his environmental efforts.
- While cell phones top the list of "most coveted objects," and 80% of us would never dare to leave home without them, most of us are only using about 10% of the capability of our mobile devices.
- The state Board of Public Works approved Wednesday a $126 million grant to Baltimore toward upgrading the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant — part of a $686 million state and local project to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the Chesapeake Bay.
- The state Board of Public Works approved Wednesday a $126 million grant to Baltimore toward upgrading the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant — part of a $686 million state and local project to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the Chesapeake Bay.
- Towson Chamber of Commerce will kick off its annual Winterfest event on Friday, Nov. 29 with the lighting of the tree at Olympic Park at the Towson Circle. Winterfest activities include street performers, refreshments, a tree decorating contest, talking reindeer, kids activities and more.
