Energy

'Green' gas plans offer climate-friendly home heating

2013-05-17 06:15:00

“Would you like to buy a carbon offset with your purchase today?” That’s a question you hear more often when you rent a car or buy groceries at MOM’S Organic Markets. Now, you also have that option when you buy natural gas to...

A new day for U.S. manufacturing

2013-05-05 05:00:00

Remember the 1980s? It was to be the decade of Japanese dominance. A post-Jimmy Carter America would be unable to compete with the efficient Japanese jobs machine. Aging technology, lazy management and high-cost labor would ensure America's rapid demise...

Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy

2013-04-28 16:34:00

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. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...

BGE says energy prices on the rise for electricity customers

2013-04-25 18:11:00

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said Thursday that 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. That rise in costs, running...

Wind picks up steam

2013-02-24 00:00:00

Would you pay a little bit more on your monthly utility bill to help build a wind farm generating as much as 200 megawatts of electricity 12 miles or more off the coast of Maryland? That's really all Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed offshore wind bill...

Former Constellation CEO Shattuck retires from Exelon — but remains on its board

2013-03-15 17:31:40

Mayo A. Shattuck III, who coordinated the sale of two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's power company for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Chicago-based Exelon Corp. didn'...

'Fracking' brings prosperity, problems to Pennsylvania

2013-03-09 09:29:00

Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge. The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the...

Transportation Center to open at APG

2013-03-08 00:00:00

In the wake of a lengthy BRAC process that has brought more jobs – and traffic – to Harford County, a transportation assistance operation has been set up to help Aberdeen Proving Ground's 21,000 employees find alternative ways to get to work....

Architect Cheryl Mohr builds a sustainable home in Edgewater

2013-02-07 10:05:00

The architect Cheryl Mohr craves natural light so much that even when the sun is bouncing off the nearby South River and streaming through the 22-foot-tall wall of windows that surrounds her living room, Mohr can't bring herself to lower the blinds....

Maryland can benefit from off-shore wind

2013-01-25 11:15:00

Recent letters commenting on wind power don't appreciate the significant benefits offshore wind power will provide — not just for Maryland but all of America. Several land-based wind energy projects are already operating in Maryland, and these...

Say no to Keystone

2013-01-29 09:38:00

With the revised route for the Keystone XL pipeline having last week won approval from Nebraska's Republican governor, the geology of North America's most controversial energy project is clear: It has landed President Barack Obama between a rock and a...

Obama's State of the Union address as prepared for delivery [Text]

2013-02-12 18:28:00

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:� Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...

Carl Stills, interim energy manager at Imperial Irrigation District, talks about the renewable energy industry during the panel The New Realities for the Renewable Energy Industry on Thursday in Holtville.

2013-03-14 23:49:00

Carl Stills, Interim Energy Manager at Imperial Irrigation District, talks about the renewable energy industry during the panel on �The New Realities for the Renewable Energy Industry� at Barbara Worth Resort and Country Club in Holtville on Thursday.

2013-03-14 21:59:00

Protesters of a wind energy project just outside of Ocotillo stand alongside Interstate 8 watching 18-wheelers bring in materials to the construction site Saturday morning.

2012-09-30 01:30:00