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- Citizens hoping to get a zoning referendum question on the ballot are not the only ones facing down an August deadline.
- Barn raisings and husking bees no longer on calendar in Carroll County
- With the Highway Trust Fund within weeks of bankruptcy, Congress looks to do no more than kick the transportation can down the road
- IKEA has expanded the solar energy system at its Perryville distribution center, making it the largest rooftop array in the state.
- Analysts are projecting the most expensive July 4th holiday weekend for motorists since 2008, attributing much of the rise to a surge of violence in Iraq. Gas in Maryland Monday averaged $3.69 per gallon, three cents more than the national average of $3.66, according to AAA, which tracks transactions throughout the state.
- The case hasn't been made that the government isn't collecting enough in fuel taxes already
- Air quality has improved a lot in Maryland and nationwide over the past 15 years, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. But summertime smog levels in Harford and Prince George's counties are still among the worst in the country, the group found.
- Think sunshine — not just sweetness — when you see the Domino Sugars sign lighting up the Inner Harbor at night.
- Bongino's non-existent plan for reducing carbon emissions
- Jonathan Slade and his wife, Novia Campbell, are no strangers to road trips.
- KAL is right: Founding Fathers couldn't have anticipated everything
- President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will tighten fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks as part of an effort to address greenhouse gas pollution administratively rather than waiting on Congress.
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- Washington shouldn't raise the gas tax until spending is under control
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- All four of my grandparents were born on the hardscrabble terrain of Ikaria between 1890 and 1895, before landing at Ellis Island. A hot-button question echoed through its craggy, ancient cliffs, silent valleys and sky-blue surf: Why are so many residents living to 95, 98, even 102?
- Aiming to boost the fledgling market for plug-in vehicles, Maryland and seven other states pledged Thursday to use their governments' tax and spending powers to get 3.3 million "zero-emission" cars, trucks and vans on the road in the next dozen years.
- Decision to invest more in Baltimore public transportation is welcome news at Hopkins
- This year, Chip and Monica Gribben's house on Holger Court in Laurel is one of more than 50 solar and green homes — including six in the Laurel area — featured on the annual Washington Metropolitan Area Tour of Solar Homes. The homes will be open this weekend, Oct. 5 and 6, to homeowners interested in taking the solar route themselves.
- State energy officials and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will unveil a pair of electric vehicle charging stations outside City Hall on Friday, the first on a city public street, officials said.
- 120 years after its invention, the diesel engine, with its increased fuel economy and lower maintenance costs, is coming into its own
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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.
- Russett's Green Day Committee brings over 30 exhibitors with products and information on green technology and how to reduce our carbon footprint
- A Goucher College study suggests that focusing on public transit and electricity use could best reduce Baltimore's ecological footprint.
- The Russett Green Committee is holding its annual Green Day event May 4, with 25 exhibitors, featuring green products and technology and electric and hybrid cars.
- Stephen Lafferty's attack on our councilman, David Marks, who is questioning the new stormwater tax required for Baltimore County residents, was a cheap shot.
- As Graul's Market lobbies publicly for a store in the Rotunda, another finalist is also eager to succeed Giant Food as the mall's grocer. Scott Nash, founder of the 10-store regional chain MOMS Organic Markets, said mall redeveloper Hekemian & Co. is considering him as a potential tenant.
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- The simple arithmetic is on the side of increasing Md.'s gas tax.
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- American Honda Motor Co., in a partnership with SolarCity, a California-based residential and commercial installer, is offering customers discounts to put photovoltaic panels on their homes at little or no upfront cost.
- Workplaces, such as General Motors' plant in White Marsh, are offering charging stations where employees can plug in their electric vehicles.
- At its recent 15th annual gala, Harford United Charities presented a check for $50,000 to the Patricia D. & M. Scot Kaufman Cancer Center at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center.
- Robert G. Jaharias, a retired Westinghouse Electric Corp. supervisor who enjoyed collecting and driving vintage automobiles, died Friday of heart failure at his Sykesville home. He was 83.
- Solar and wind power are no panacea for climate change
- More Sandy- and derecho-like disasters are easy to predict, unless we begin to shift away from fossil fuels now
- A half-dozen suggestions for relatively easy-to-keep New Year's resolutions to live greener in 2013.
- Harrison Trains LLC presents a train garden at Richardson's Farm Market with donations going to Johns Hopkins Children's Center
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