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Now is the time to contact Gov. Martin O'Malley to remind him how important it is to ramp up work by our utilities and state agencies to deliver energy efficiency, which reduces the need to generate electricity with fuels that create the carbon pollution that harms our health and planet. Our state must invest more money, and do so more effectively, especially in our housing stock. Not only will that protect our cherished Chesapeake Bay by reducing pollution, it will benefit households struggling

The nation suffers from more than a federal deficit. Studies by congressional and scientific panels repeatedly warn of an "innovation deficit" that weakens our technological edge. Decades of strong federal support for university research and education helped America prevail in the Cold War and fueled prosperity.

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. CEO Calvin Butler Jr. and the U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Kathleen Hogan joined Towson University officials Thursday afternoon to mark the school's participation in the Department of Energy's Better Building Challenge and to present the school a $1.7 million rebate check from BGE for past efficiencies.

Survey results find millennials, who are underrepresented in the federal workplace, are interested in federal jobs but agencies aren't doing enough to capitalize on it.

The Howard County weatherization program helps resident save on electricity.

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, who has established himself as an authority on intelligence issues in Congress, will face a Democratic primary in June from an opponent who has spent his career working in the intel community.

More than 500 people rallied Thursday in Baltimore against plans to export liquefied natural gas from a southern Maryland facility, chanting and carrying signs past the office tower where state regulators were considering one aspect of that proposal.

Liquid natural gas exports are key to America's future

Virginia-based Dominion Resources wants to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the Chesapeake Bay via a facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. This project would not only damage our state's environment, it is also part of an unwise potential national shift toward exporting natural gas, which threatens the economy and jeopardizes our country's goal of reducing harmful greenhouse gas pollution.

Maryland retained its ninth-best ranking on a national comparison of states' energy-efficiency efforts, but a separate report also out Wednesday said Maryland must up the ante if it doesn't want to fall short of its own goals.

Hydrofracking risks outweigh the rewards in Maryland

Lessons from Hurricane Sandy are still being put into action, but officials in Crisfield and Garrett County, the hardest-hit areas of Maryland, say they are better prepared for future disasters.

Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.

As agencies sent nonessential employees home, unions and other advocates for federal employees warned that the seemingly endless succession of fiscal crises and cuts is threatening the ability of the government to recruit and retain the best talent.

Dominion Resources won federal approval Wednesday to export liquefied natural gas to countries that don't have free trade agreeemnts with the United States from its terminal at Cove Point in Calvert County.

A Howard County startup is trying to prove that its algae bioreactors are an answer to greenhouse-gas pollution.

Energy production and environmental protection need not be mutually exclusive

Fracking's risks have been great overstated by opponents

General Motors officially launched its new electric motor in White Marsh Tuesday, a milestone in domestic manufacturing — and a key part of the company's bet that the electric-vehicle market is poised to grow.

While Harford County already has strong participation in its recycling programs, officials are continuing their outreach efforts to get as many residents and businesses to recycle as possible, in order to reduce the amount of waste sitting in landfills and reuse products such as glass, aluminum, plastic, paper and more.

Maryland can foster renewable energy and end dependence on fossil fuels by banning fracking now

Workplaces, such as General Motors' plant in White Marsh, are offering charging stations where employees can plug in their electric vehicles.

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.

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.

Cove Point LNG export plan is a bad bet for Maryland

Empower Maryland program offers 50 percent rebates of up to $3,150 on retrofit projects that make homes more energy efficient by upgrading poor insulation, sealing leaks in air ducts and fixing cracks in walls and around windows and doors.

Developers like single-site arrangements because they work

Exporting natural gas from Cove Point would benefit Maryland and the nation

Johns Hopkins researcher Seth Guikema is building a model that can predict power outages ahead of hurricanes and other major storms.

State Sen. Rob Garagiola, a Democrat from Germantown, has been sent a letter of reprimand from a state ethics committee for failing to disclose income he received as a lobbyist on state disclosure forms.

Dominion Resources, the Richmond, Va.-based energy producer and transporter, said Thursday it will move ahead with plans to convert a liquefied natural terminal at Cove Point in Calvert County into an export facility -- a decision that drew the immediate objection of the Sierra Club.

Derek Sheely was a 22-year-old honor student and a captain of Frostburg State's football team who collapsed in late August after sustaining a blow to the head in practice. He died six days later of severe head trauma.

The Howard County Community Action Council is expanding its program that provides free home weatherization improvements to reach more residents.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and others are right: Eliminate wasteful federal agencies

High-rise parking garages in downtown Towson going green

The Howard County Council is considering a bill this month authorizing property tax credits for homeowners whose property meet environmental design standards.

Solyndra: One company's bankruptcy aside, solar will be a huge part of our green energy future

The University of Maryland took first place Saturday in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2011 with its solar-powered, energy-conserving WaterShed House inspired by the Chesapeake Bay.

Police are investigating a murder-suicide in Laurel that occurred Wednesday morning

Department of Energy awards W.R. Grace nearly $3 million to reduce carbon emissions cost effectively.

Chesapeake Bay: UM students say, if we're going to live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, we need to design structures that don't increase pollution

The energy audit program is a part of the county's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. The county published a greenhouse gas inventory in 2010 that showed residential electricity and gas account for more than 25 percent of the of the county's overall footprint.

Baltimore and the nation may stand again at the beginning of a new era in electric vehicles.