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- Harford Community College Board of Trustees lays out budget schedule for next nine fiscal years
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A Maryland jury on Tuesday found Sen. Ulysses S. Currie not guilty of accepting bribes from two Shoppers Food Warehouse executives, acquitting all three men of extortion and conspiracy charges. - A major investment in Maryland-based renewable energy stands to be extracted from the proposed merger of Constellation and Exelon
- The Howard County Council is considering a bill this month authorizing property tax credits for homeowners whose property meet environmental design standards.
- Defense and government lawyers in the bribery trial of Maryland Sen. Ulysses S. Currie sparred for hours Thursday during final arguments before sending the federal case to the jury for deliberation.
- By raising the flush tax, Maryland could do much more to reduce pollution coming into the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries
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- Two groups charged with figuring out how the state can pay for new roads, a cleaner bay and other key functions of government suggested the same basic answer Tuesday: Marylanders should be asked to dig a little deeper into their pockets.
- Creative bond financing proposal could infuse billions into Baltimore for school construction and renovation
- Waste-to-energy incinerators are environmentally-friendly choice for Maryland
- Whether it be geo-thermal, wind or solar power, the town of Sykesville is seeking bid proposals by early November to ultimately create a renewable energy array for the town. The source would be used at three of the town's buildings — the Public Works Building, the Sykesville Police Station and the Sykesville Town House.
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- The governor is pushing state energy regulators to consider renewable energy resources in their efforts to seek potential new power generation in Maryland.
- Perryville town commissioners breeze through requests during Tuesday's work session
- It might not seem to be a bright investment right now, after weeks of seemingly endless clouds and rain, but solar panels are popping up on rooftops all over Maryland.
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- Rate rebates are nice, but the governor, people's counsel are right to make ensuring the sufficiency of Maryland's electric supply a central issue in the Public Service Commission's consideration of the merger.
- An early voice for urban jobs creation, Dennis Livingston was a pioneer at Station North Arts District's Cork Factory
- An early voice for urban jobs creation, Dennis Livingston was a pioneer at Station North Arts District's Cork Factory
- As Constellation Energy Group prepares to sell itself to Chicago-based Exelon, critics are advancing proposals to make the deal more palatable to Maryland customers.
- Despite the current controversies, investors realize that low-polluting energy is the wave of the future
- County Councilman David Marks wants Baltimore County to establish standards for lighting for stadiums and athletic fields to help minimize the intrusion that lights from those facilities can have upon residential neighborhoods.
- To encourage sustainability in Harford County, County Executive David R. Craig recently formed the Green Team as one of his Environmental Initiatives.
- Baltimore's proposed waste-to-energy facility poses danger to children's health
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- Solar panels under construction at a long-capped landfill in Howard County will soon be used to offset energy costs at a nearby elementary school.
- The weak economy may have limited the immediate success of green jobs, but the future remains bright.
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- Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says that even in this economy, opportunities abound
- Governor O'Malley says the state has come a long way in defending against threats since 9/11
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- Laurel city officials will dedicate the new Partnership Activity Center Sept. 10, which is located at the Laurel Police Department on Fifth Street.
- With one million jobs at stake, Congress must act soon to renew federal gas tax and pass a transportation spending plan
- Five years after founding Window Nation, brothers Harley and Aaron Magden have built the Baltimore-area company into the 28th-largest firm on trade magazine Qualified Remodeler's list of the top 500 home-improvement companies nationwide. Revenue rose 70 percent last year.
- A pipeline carrying raw sewage from a Baltimore County pumping station to a treatment plant in the city has spilled about 100 million gallons into the Patapsco; other overflows dumped another 17 million gallons.
- The Harford County Department of Public Works has reported an overflow of 263,000 gallons of raw, partially treated sewage occurred during the height of Hurricane Irene last weekend.
- There were no reported injuries in Ocean City as Hurricane Irene passed through and tourists will be allowed back in starting at noon when the town officially reopens.
- Renewable energy: A more flexible planning process is needed for the Mid-Atlantic's power system
- Everything in Ocean City is empty. Tourists are not walking on the beach or boardwalk, staying in hotels or eating in restaurants. Sea gulls flew elsewhere for the weekend. The city even emptied the dumpsters in anticipation of Hurricane Irene.
- Coastal areas evacuated; waterfront stores, homes pile sandbags; universities delay move-ins
- Hundreds of Americans are expected to be arrested in protests outside the White House over a proposed pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands petroleum to Texas.
- Poplar 4-H Club member Katie Loveless was named the Farm Queen at the 2011 Howard County Fair
- Carbon fees are a way to charge for wanton waste of limited resources
- Gov. Martin O'Malley announced $2.1 million in grants Thursday fund energy-efficiency projects aimed at low- and moderate-income families.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley appointed Kevin Hughes and Kelly Speakes-Backman on Wednesday to fill vacancies on the Maryland Public Service Commission.
- An estimated 2.4 million gallons of sewage overflowed Sunday afternoon into the Back River in Essex, the Department of Public Works said Tuesday in a statement.
- The Baltimore City Department of Public Works said Tuesday that an estimated 2.4 million gallons of sewer overflow spilled into the Back River in Baltimore County on Sunday, Aug. 16, emanating from the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Essex.
- A critic of Constellation Energy Group's proposed merger with Chicago-based Exelon Corp. wants the two companies to provide $810 million in incentives to Maryland ratepayers and other stakeholders as part of their deal.