Energy Resources

Gill sworn in as natural resources chief

2013-05-21 11:39:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley swore in Joseph P. Gill as Secretary of Natural Resources Tuesday, replacing John R. Griffin at the top of the 1,200-employee agency. Griffin has been named to replace Matt Gallagher as the governor's chief of staff as of June 1....

Residents, workers share views on Fallston gas pipeline

2013-05-22 06:37:00

About 20 people made passionate pleas Tuesday for and against a proposed parallel Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline which would go through a number of agricultural and residential properties and nature areas in Baltimore and Harford counties. The...

Time for greens to embrace nukes

2013-05-22 09:54:00

For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...

'Green' gas plan offers climate-friendly home heating

2013-05-17 06:15:00

(An earlier version of this post included incorrect information about Maryland Gas & Electric, its pricing and whether it offers a "green" gas plan involving carbon offsets. The Sun regrets the errors.) ---------------- (Another in an occasional...

A nuclear opportunity

2013-05-06 03:00:00

Companies supplying components for the nuclear power industry are located throughout the United States, including a number in Maryland. These manufacturing firms have developed businesses providing components and equipment required for the maintenance and...

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...

Fracking is not the answer for U.S. economy

2013-05-07 11:15:00

Apparently, columnist Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. doesn't understand the difference between manufacturing and mining or mineral extraction ("New day for U.S. manufacturing," May 5). While manufacturing is sustainable as long as there is a demand for the...

Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy needs

2013-05-09 08:15:00

Dan Ervin's commentary on lifting restrictions on U.S. companies supplying nuclear power equipment abroad is completely misleading ("A nuclear opportunity," May 6). Nuclear energy is not, as Mr. Ervin says, pollutant free or carbon free. Government...

A&P hopes to open grocery store in new Bel Air shopping center

2013-04-17 00:00:00

As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, April 18, 1963: The A&P Company signed a long-term lease for its new location in the soon-to-be developed Bel Air Plaza. The Plaza was to be built on the former Durham farm, opposite the Bel Air race...

Not all aboard capsized fishing boat wore vests

2013-04-21 15:49:00

A preliminary report on the deaths of two anglers on the opening day of the Chesapeake Bay rockfish season says all six persons aboard the boat that capsized off Point Lookout had life vests, but not all wore them, according to the Maryland Natural...

Two dead after boating accident on Chesapeake Bay

2013-04-20 13:07:00

Two people died and four were rescued in a boating accident on the Chesapeake Bay Saturday when their 25-foot boat capsized two miles south of Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary's County, according to Department of Natural Resources Police. Sgt....

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...

A kayak tour of a section of Dragon Run on Friday attracted a number of state and local officials, including, from left, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech, Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission Executive Director Lewie Lawrence and Virginia Department of Environmental

2013-05-02 00:00:00

The Natural Resources Commission could authorize a wolf harvest in Michigan as early as this fall, said Adam Bump, bear and furbearer specialist for the Department of Natural Resources.

2013-03-21 06:25:00

The 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon will be available in a version running on compressed natural gas.

2013-03-05 15:14:00