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- The Aberdeen City Council voted 4-1 Monday night to approve a final plat for a Chick-fil-A at the corner of Route 22 and Beards Hill Road, where a gas station currently sits. The council also enacted the city's budget for the 2014 fiscal year.
- In terms of cost and safety, nuclear power can't hold a candle to renewable energy sources
- Harford County government's green star for the third quarter was awarded to Denise Carnaggio, deputy director of the Office of Economic Development, for reducing and rethinking with technology
- Nuclear power is not an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels.
- Royal Farms has agreed to pay a $600,000 penalty for fuel leaks at two of its outlets and to check dozens more for possible problems, the Maryland Department of the Environment said.
- Renewables cannot solve our energy needs; to seriously address climate change, nuclear energy must be in the conversation
- The only thing wrong with spending $100 million more on Maryland's commuter rail service is that it's not enough
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. asked Friday for a rate increase, three months after winning approval for higher charges in its last case — a shift to more frequent rate requests that the company expects will continue.
- A"green" natural gas plan gives Marylanders the option of paying a little more to shrink their carbon footprint while heating their homes.
- The Army is moving forward with converting an old building on the Aberdeen Proving Ground into a water source to provide 3 million gallons of water daily, Aberdeen city manager Doug Miller said.
- The first of 70 new energy-efficient locomotives destined for Amtrak's East Coast service were rolled out Monday morning from a California assembly line.
- Millions wasted on Solyndra, Fisker
- These energy-efficient light bulbs are a severe biohazard if they are broken.
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- Forest Ridge Elementary School students learned the importance of sustainable living during a visit from greeNEWit, a local start-up dedicated to encouraging green living.
- Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said it will give $25 to each residential customer who recycles a working air-conditioning unit at an event this weekend.
- Projects initiated by businesses, local governments and ordinary residents across the Chesapeake Bay. watershed are reducing pollution.
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- Looking up from a nearly $20 million gap, Harford County Public Schools officials appealed to the members of the Harford County Council Thursday morning to fully fund their request for $241 million from the county for their Fiscal Year 2014 operating budget.
- A bankruptcy filing by Synagro Technologies Inc. on Wednesday means growth and new jobs for the Baltimore area as the waste recycler consolidates, making its sole headquarters in White Marsh.
- Bel Air town officials plan to replace the brick sidewalk and plantings along the Office Street side of the grounds of the Harford County Circuit Courthouse, and hope to convince county leaders to improve the courthouse grounds.
- A pharmaceutical company, a data analytics firm and a lighting company learned Monday night that they won the top prizes at the state's inaugural competition for start-up firms — $100,000 each.
- Offshore wind legislation makes Maryland the region's leader in pursuing renewable energy
- An Annapolis-based financier of clean energy infrastructure has filed plans to go public, hoping to raise up to $250 million from investors
- Exelon gave about $7 million to Maryland charitable causes in the 12 months since it acquired Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group, the same as Constellation had in recent years. That was the deal — literally.
- Harford County Public Schools has received a contribution of more than $600,000 from BGE, to reflect the school system's partnership with the utility to conserve 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'
- 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.
- Long-held dreams of freshly painted walls, hallways bathed in natural light and classrooms buzzing with technology are moving closer to reality in Baltimore City, as school communities wait with cautious optimism as a financial plan to overhaul the district's buildings faces its final hurdle.
- While Harford County already has strong participation in its recycling programs, officials are continuing their outreach efforts to get as many residents and businesses to recycle as possible, in order to reduce the amount of waste sitting in landfills and reuse products such as glass, aluminum, plastic, paper and more.
- 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.
- Harford County Government's 1st Green Expo for Employees
- Septics law is about clean water, not about hurting rural counties
- 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
