energy
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Aberdeen native, Nat Kreamer, 37, was honored at the White House alongside 11 other U.S. veterans for advancing the areas of clean energy and climate security on Tuesday morning. - Solar is becoming mainstream in an increasing number of states, Maryland included. And it's not just about panels on government roofs, rising from expansive fields or atop environmentalists' homes. Corporate America has signed on.
- A new report by the Abell Foundation suggests white or cool roof systems like hers could help fight global climate change while also making the city a healthier place to live – but local and state governments need to do more to expand installation efforts.
- Federal regulators are investigating Exelon's Constellation commodities group and say they have "preliminarily determined" that the division violated market-behavior rules.
- When Dan and Margo Duesterhaus moved into their Ellicott City home 12 years ago, the solar power movement was still more concept than reality. But the couple had always been environmentally conscious, and they put their ideals into action.
- When Dan and Margo Duesterhaus moved into their Ellicott City home 12 years ago, the solar power movement was still more concept than reality. But the couple had always been environmentally conscious, and they put their ideals into action.
- A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional an arrangement approved by state regulators to allow construction of a new power plant in southern Maryland, an effort to increase locally produced energy before tight supply causes reliability problems.
- BGE customers are collectively saving nearly 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year through energy-efficiency incentive programs. It's enough energy to power 156,000 homes for a year, or the equivalent of a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from 230,000 cars.
- Congressman Harris, my generation is depending on your generation of leaders to rise above partisan politics and combat the challenges that face our nation.
- The crew of the Scarlett Isabella has been working almost nonstop since late June to map a 94-nautical-square-mile expanse of sea floor off Maryland's coast, gathering data that could help in placing up to 40 huge wind turbines there to generate power.
- O'Malley has set Maryland on the right path with renewable portfolio standard
- Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday appointed Anne E. Hoskins, an executive with a New Jersey-based energy company, to the powerful board that regulates utility rates in Maryland.
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- A Howard County startup is trying to prove that its algae bioreactors are an answer to greenhouse-gas pollution.
- The Walmart at Lansdowne Station had over 1,300 solar panels installed last year and now gets a large amount of electricity from them
- President Obama's latest climate change plan may prove helpful but U.S. will need to do much more to address the coming storm
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- A"green" natural gas plan gives Marylanders the option of paying a little more to shrink their carbon footprint while heating their homes.
- A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles.
- BGE says energy prices will rise $6 a month for the typical residential electricity customer who doesn't use an outside power supplier, the first jump in energy prices in four years.
- Mayo A. Shattuck III, who helped sell two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's energy firm for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
- Pennsylvania's headlong plunge into drilling for natural gas from Marcellus shale formations has produced winners and losers. Businesses catering to the energy industry have opened or expanded, and some landowners who signed leases allowing wells to be drilled on their property have profited. But critics say fracking has polluted wells and threatens the environment.
- 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
- Third time's the charm as Governor O'Malley's ambitious plan to encourage offshore wind power in Maryland moves forward
- 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.
- 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.
- Proposed off-shore wind power will create jobs, lower energy prices
- 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.
- 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.
- The private sector can't keep paying for the public dole forever.
- A Calvert County judge brushed aside a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG import terminal at Cove Point.
- Harold Newton Barr, a Baltimore resident and former Army radio operator who announced from a schoolhouse in Germany the death of Adolf Hitler, died at his home Dec. 22 of natural causes.
- Lawmakers should mandate an industry-financed study of fracking on Western Maryland
- 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
- Hearings begin Monday in a case that will decide whether Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers can expect higher distribution rates next year.
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- While politicians spar in Washington over how to keep the nation from going over a "fiscal cliff," environmental activists warn that the wind-energy industry faces its own cliff if Congress doesn't act soon to extend a federal tax break for turbine construction that expires at the end of the year.
- PointClickSwitch.com was founded two years ago by a trio of real estate development professionals in Baltimore who saw a need to offer a website that allows easy price comparison — and bill-switching — for Maryland residents.
- After years of neglect, it's time lawmakers in Annapolis addressed Maryland's struggling transportation finances
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- A full week later, I'm still savoring the extra hour of sleep I got last Sunday morning at 2 a.m. when daylight saving time officially ended for 2012.
- President Obama has failed the nation and should not be returned to office
- Members of the Harford County Board of Education unanimously elected Rick Grambo board president during their meeting in Bel Air Monday night.
- Free-spending Fed is piling up debt that will bury the economy
- 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.
