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Maryland must stop not set land use policies for rural counties

Third time's the charm as Governor O'Malley's ambitious plan to encourage offshore wind power in Maryland moves forward

Facing the challenge of keeping a historic mansion warm for its elderly residents while reining in costs, the nonprofit organization that operates an 18th century house in Annapolis are turning to 21st century techniques. Chase Home is waiting for the results of its first energy audit.

An increasing number of Americans are buying generators, backup sump pumps and other storm-prep items after the last few years of damaging weather.

Workplaces, such as General Motors' plant in White Marsh, are offering charging stations where employees can plug in their electric vehicles.

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.

After postponing the vote from its Jan. 29 meeting, the Aberdeen City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve legislation updating the town's Ethics Ordinance.

Lawmakers and representatives of Maryland's county and municipal governments sparred Tuesday over a pair of bills in Annapolis that would raise the fines for sewage spills which annually dump millions of gallons of untreated waste into local waters and the Chesapeake Bay.

Climate change is real but solutions are really difficult

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.

If you can hold off from buying that energy-efficient refrigerator or furnace for a little more than a week, you could save 6 percent sales tax in Maryland.

A consortium of Northeastern states including Maryland has agreed to reset a power plant emissions cap to current levels and to tighten it annually starting in 2015, an action officials said would increase investment in energy efficiency and slightly raise electricity prices, besides cutting pollution.

Mohr's design for her 7,000-square-foot home revels in the sun, wind, rain and plant life, and takes steps to preserve these resources.

The following is the complete text of Harford County Executive David Craig's 2013 State of the County Address delivered at the Harford County Council legislative session on Tuesday, Feb. 5:

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.

The Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground experienced a wastewater treatment plant sewage overflow Thursday, caused by extreme rainfall totaling two inches in 24-hours, the Army said Friday.

If President Obama is to get serious about climate change, he must reject Keystone XL pipeline

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.

In building the new Susquehanna Center/APG Federal Credit Union Arena, the college selected the most energy efficient equipment available.

Proposed off-shore wind power will create jobs, lower energy prices

Devices' wireless signals seen as benefit and health issue

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.

Climate change earns a prominent mention in Inaugural Address as President Obama wisely plots a pragmatic, incremental approach to the problem

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.

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."

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.

Initiative helps low-income families save on energy, make homes healthier

Johns Hopkins students press university to drop fossil energy stocks from endowment as part of national campus divestment campaign seeking action on climate change.

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.

Baltimore County will host a public meeting this week in Towson for nonprofits, government agencies and the public to discuss funding and spending priorities for community development programs aimed at social action, housing, child services and equal access.

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.

The failure of the recent climate change talks in Qatar should not discourage U.S. from taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

More active enforcement of the law is the better approach

Report by the Environmental Integrity Project finds significant gaps persist in Maryland and the other bay watershed states in enforcement of municipal and industrial water pollution, including lax permitting and infrequent inspections. The group warns the states' shortcomings in oversight of such discharges undermine the progress being made in restoring the Chesapeake.

Community members joined officials from the Y of Central Maryland and Baltimore County government Wednesday morning to break ground on a new $13 million Towson Family Center Y in West Towson.

Between gay marriage, the Dream Act, gambling expansion, environmental initiatives and fixing the state budget, Gov. Martin O'Malley had a big year.

Gov. Martin O'Malley wrote President Obama supporting renewed efforts nationally to deal with climate change and urging the president to look to Maryland as a model for how government can fight climate change.

Baltimore is about to adopt a "climate action plan" that among other things calls for increasing energy efficiency in city homes and buildings, developing more renewable energy, getting more people out of their cars and planting more trees.

Peter Morici says phony fixes for the impeding fiscal crisis could leave us worse off