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- Gov. Martin O'Malley is offering local governments a significant sweetener — more money for local road projects — as part of an effort to secure their support for his proposal to apply the state's 6 percent sales tax to gasoline.
- Baltimore Charm: Kelly Campbell's travels
- Climate change: Rising tides suggest it's time to step back from the water's edge
- Annual dredge survey of Chesapeake Bay crabs to help determine health of population and potential regulations
- Thanks in large part to booming production of natural gas from shale deposits in neighboring states, a Maryland LNG terminal could be bustling again in several years — exporting the heating and industrial fuel to other countries, instead of importing it.
- Harford residents speak out at a public hearing for the proposed 2012 master plan Tuesday evening.
- Wind energy: Unreliability of turbines means they must be backed up by polluting energy sources
- Wind energy: Maryland is committed to getting 20% from renewable sources by 2022
- Architects live and breathe design, blissfully losing themselves in details most people would never notice — the bevel of a trim, the way light falls across a room, squared legs or curved. So what happens, we wondered, when two such aesthetes come together under one roof?
- Customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. can expect to pay $100 to $200 less to heat their homes this winter if the warmer-than-normal weather continues.
- Residents commented on the county's Master Plan at a public hearing Tuesday evening.
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America's failure to invest in alternative energy sources will come back to haunt future generations
The consequences of America's failure to invest in alternative energy sources will come back to haunt future generations - Despite complaint, new Symphony Woods Park will have plenty of trees
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- Interior finds no significant impact to leasing for turbines off Mid-Atlantic Coast
- Constellation Energy Group said Thursday that it closed the acquisition of a Tulsa, Okla. Natural gas company, the third deal in the past year that helps expand the Baltimore company's retail business.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to apply Maryland's 6 percent sales tax to gasoline, a change that at current prices would add 18 cents a gallon to the cost at the pump.
- Keystone pipeline: Administration seems to be doing everything in its power to thwart America's quest for energy independence
- Group urges more oversight of industry
- Retired automotive executive and longtime Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge volunteer expanded mission of support group
- County workers staying put, except for public works
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- President Obama expands on ideas he presented in this week's State of the Union address.
- Obama touts "clean energy," shale gas, defends rules
- Researchers, other birds help rear endangered whooping cranes and lead them on migrations
- Natural Resources Police say group was power-dredging in sanctuary
- Military bomb disposal teams have detonated the vintage munitions. The Army Corps of Engineers is combing land records and military archives to determine how they got here. The Maryland Park Service has closed Newtowne Neck until further notice.
- John Martino, founder of the Annapolis School of Seamanship, recently began using a Dutch-made simulator to help teach boating safety
- Briarwood residents in South Laurel met with BG&E representatives to discuss excessive outages in their community.
- Obama administration took the only sensible course available and put the risky Keystone XL pipeline on the shelf — at least temporarily
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- Peter Morici says U.S. priorities for boosting employment should be fair trade policies, aggressive energy development
- Peter Morici says U.S. priorities for boosting employment should be fair trade policies, aggressive energy development
- Hunter in hospital and four of his friends charged with multiple counts of illegal hunting in Prince George's County.
- As the number of Maryland residents who switch to alternative power suppliers has grown in the last two years, so have concerns about marketing and sales tactics.
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- Commercial striped bass season could be closed if evidence of poaching is found.
- Members of the Essex Skypark Association recently learned the waterfront airport could be lost.
- The state Board of Public Works gave its unanimous approval Wednesday to a wetlands dredging permit for a company that hopes to build a third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs power plant in Southern Maryland even though the project is far from getting off the ground.
- Tom Horton: Maryland's forest protection law, though toughest in the Chesapeake watershed, is still far too weak
- Former Audubon sanctuary among farms targeted for work
- New federal rules to reduce mercury and other toxic chemicals emitted into the air by power plants are certain to save lives
- If you're waking up with a slight buzz as a result of too much New Year's Eve revelry, you might consider skipping this column.
- Landowners, Realtors seek more disclosure, protections