energy saving

Experts offer options beyond A/C for keeping your cool at home

Harford Community College looking into partnership with solar energy company to install solar panels

Baltimore County has purchased nearly 1,000 trees to provide shade, reduce energy costs and protect the county's watershed.

Jill Carr and Albert H. Dudley IV met at a triathlon on the Eastern Shore, and a year later, he proposed at the same event.

Rodgers Forgers certainly celebrated the Towson Fourth of July Parade on a high note. Forgers did us proud as they filled role of featured neighborhood.

The Baltimore Convention Center expects to save $18 million in energy costs over 15 years because of energy conservation measures it announced Monday.

Renewable energy sources are the answer to power outages

A Maryland utility policy allows BGE and other power companies to charge customers a distribution fee of less than $1 despite power outages.

Issues of road access, trail retention and a speedy construction schedule were discussed Tuesday, July 10, as the Baltimore County Board of Education was presented with site and design plans for the new Mays Chapel elementary school.

Aberdeen city officials said Monday the results of the feasibility study for the MARC/Amtrak station area master plan will be announced in public meeting Aug. 6.

Scientists studying impact of contaminants on fish-eating birds

Towson Green, the Bozzuto Group's 121-unit housing development east of York Road in Towson, has three model homes ready to showcase for potential buyers.

The Walmart in Hampstead has expanded with groceries and new layout

Over-the-top resource extraction methods are boomeranging on us in the form of worsening climate change

County group voices concerns over fiscal, economic impact of state plan to require less polluting septic systems on all new homes.

The 72,500-acre Aberdeen Proving Ground has been named to the Top Earth Day Champions list for its success in reducing harmful carbon emission and energy waste. The facility has a goal of reducing energy consumption 30 percent by 2015

With Harford County Council Bill 11-51 having been enacted into law, Harford County has completed the legislative process of updating its building and mechanical codes to the applicable 2012 International Codes. The updated code took effect Sunday.

Plan to be aired for cutting Baltimore''s greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020

A group of Maryland political leaders and environmental scientists say the O'Malley administration's proposed manure regulations aren't strong enough to meet the EPA's goals or to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

The state outlined Friday how it proposes to spend the $113.5 million that Exelon Corp. agreed to put in a "customer investment fund" as part of its merger with Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s parent.

Grant to Civic Works, a Baltimore nonprofit, to provide free improvements

A powerful stench was in the air at the Inner Harbor Saturday, as 12-year-olds Alison Chase and Marissa Westerbeke hunched over the water's edge, studying tiny crabs floating to the surface.

The 145th consecutive Memorial Day observance in Westminster is being planned as a four-day event, May 25-28, with numerous activities to honor and pay tribute to veterans.

State officials approved nearly $350 million Wednesday in school construction funding that will allow school systems in the Baltimore area to undertake a plethora of renovation projects.

A study suggesting that the sophistication of congressional floor speeches has declined by a full grade level since 2005 ranks Reps. Chris Van Hollen and John Sarbanes as the most eloquent ¿ or verbose, depending on your perspective ¿ members of Maryland¿s delegation to Washington.

The CDC's new lead poisoning guidelines show the need for greater public investment in remediating older homes.

Despite financing more than $140 million city contracts in the past 12 years, donating tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic causes and being a member of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's inner circle, J.P. Grant has largely avoided the limelight.

Maryland's efforts to restore waterways benefit all residents

Hot weather this summer could offset energy cost savings from a mild winter in Maryland.

Council approves resolution for coop health plan, hears about annexation

Gov. Martin O'Malley signed more than 300 bills into law Wednesday, including measures hailed by environmentalists as providing new protections for the Chesapeake Bay.