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Md. renewable-energy program addresses often-ignored wood and pellet stoves

The Church of the Redeemer's new geothermal heating and air-conditioning system is up and running six months after plans were announced on Earth Day. The geothermal system is also operating at seat of the state's Episcopal church, the Cathedral of the Incarnation.

Empower Maryland program offers 50 percent rebates of up to $3,150 on retrofit projects that make homes more energy efficient by upgrading poor insulation, sealing leaks in air ducts and fixing cracks in walls and around windows and doors.

Exporting natural gas from Cove Point would benefit Maryland and the nation

The $113.5 million that Exelon Corp. agreed to make available for innovative projects — a condition of regulatory approval for its purchase of Constellation Energy — was awarded Thursday to groups planning to help low-income customers, small businesses and others decrease their energy bills.

University of Maryland study finds "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in US wastewater treatment plants, suggesting plant workers at risk for infections.

Firefighters from the River's Park Fire Station had only one question for Casey Dyson as they sampled home-baked cookies from her fledgling delivery service: Does she pack cold milk on her scooter?

The candidates won't discuss a warming planet, but Hurricane Sandy filled in the silence

Members of the Harford County Board of Education unanimously elected Rick Grambo board president during their meeting in Bel Air Monday night.

Jonah Goldberg says the president is citing signs of a lousy economy as major accomplishments

Area residents interested in the latest trends for home improvements will see several familiar faces among the more than 300 exhibitor as this weekend's Maryland Home & Garden Show at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium.

All-electric cars aren't yet a viable alternative to our current fleet

The EV won't replace long-ranging gas vehicles but is an ideal solution for local commuters

PNC Bank creates "living wall" on Maryland headquarters in Baltimore

Environmentally friendly schools can be recognized in second year of national program

Morgan State University has developed a hub for science, technology, engineering and math with its new academic building, the Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies.

Maryland energy chief joins industry group in Washington promoting conservation, wind, solar and nuclear

Megan Hill, from Havre de Grace, who is serving with an AmeriCorps NCCC (National Community Corps) team from the North Central Region campus in Vinton, Iowa, is working with the American Red Cross in response to Hurricane Isaac, managing a shelter for evacuated residents through Sept. 19

A proposed new reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland faces a major new roadblock, with federal regulators threatening to shelve the troubled $9.6 billion project unless the French-controlled developer comes up with a U.S. partner in the next two months.

Vice presidential nominee talks about returning power to the people, but the people he listens to already have the power.

Why the GOP hates teaching kids about climate change

The Columbia Association is working on its second solar panel project of the year — slightly more than 100 solar panels will be installed on the roof of Amherst House in King's Contrivance by the end of the year — as the organization makes a bigger push to use alternative forms of energy.

During the school year, the halls and classrooms are filled with students and teachers. But during the summer, many schools are instead packed with construction workers.

Going block by block, crews in bucket trucks are converting 70,000 Baltimore street lights from sodium vapor lights to long-lasting, energy-saving LEDs. Critics complain the new lights don't illuminate the area as well.

The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) and contracting firm SAIC are answering the Army's call for more green technologies to be developed by partnering to create the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER) 2.0 system

Environmentalists paddled kayaks along Dundee Creek Saturday to call attention to the recent sale of three local coal-fired power plants they say should be shut down for polluting the air. Jan Hoffmaster of Millersville, the outings chairman for the Maryland chapter of the Sierra Club, told a team of the organization's volunteers they were on a three-part mission: "Enjoy, explore and protect."

Annapolis public housing complex benefits from new business model that aims to put renewable energy on the roofs of public housing

The Maryland PSC will review a policy that allows BGE to collect revenue during the first 24 hours of storm-related power outages.

PJM Interconnection staff are recommending the grid operator cancel the PATH and MAPP transmission line projects because of lowered electricity demand.

Maryland environmental officials placed the Eastern shore under a drought warning, encouraging water use restrictions.

Policies to change building codes in flood plains and on coastlines, construct offshore wind turbines and manage suburban sprawl could find political opportunity, officials hope, as recent extreme weather renews a conversation on climate change in Maryland and nationally.

With drought-fueled corn prices threatening to clobber consumers, it's time to ease the federal ethanol mandate

A climate tax is just the sort of solution to climate change that conservatives ought to embrace

Batteries and generators keep intersections functioning in Howard, Arundel counties.

Gov. Martin O'Malley says farmers have been among them state's best partners in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. is seeking to raise distribution rates for electricity and natural gas, a move that would add about $11.80 a month to the median residential bill.

You can take Michael Phelps out of Baltimore. You can send him to his fourth Olympics. But what does he do during his downtime?

If Harford Community College's trustees approve a proposed power purchase agreement Monday evening, solar panels installed on rooftops of several building will result in very little financial liability for the institution but potentially large savings on the college's energy bills, HCC officials say.

Trees knocked down the power lines that left thousands without electricity, but they are not the problem.