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Breaking News: Nuclear plants prompt negative reaction
Source: Politico

Maryland :: MD :: USA | updated Wed Feb 17 02:43:42 -0800 2010 | green-news

President Barack Obama’s efforts to lure climate change votes by embracing nuclear power are drawing fire from both the left and the right. Environmental groups are leery of using federal funds to subsidize nuclear power plants, arguing that they can...
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Latest Breaking News: County approves textile recycling
Source: Frederick News-Post

Frederick :: MD :: USA | updated Thu Feb 18 21:43:54 -0800 2010 | green-news

The Frederick County Recycling Office collected 8,600 pounds of old clothing, belts and handbags last year for its textile reuse program. Until November, the office sent its textiles to the Frederick Rescue Mission. On Tuesday, the Frederick County Commissioners agreed...
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Current News: Maryland effort aims for 100,000 solar rooftops in 10 years
Source: Baltimore Sun

Annapolis :: MD :: USA | updated Tue Feb 16 23:19:41 -0800 2010 | green-news

Today, a bunch of legislators and business people plan to show their support for three solar related bills being considered by the General Assembly by gathering in a state office building and explaining how they will make it easier to use...
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Current World News: Report says biofuels could generate jobs, help Chesapeake Bay
Source: Baltimore Sun

Baltimore :: MD :: USA | updated Wed Jan 20 09:16:10 -0800 2010 | green-news

A new report says biofuels made from plants grown in the Chesapeake Bay watershed would also create jobs and help restore the bay. The report issued Wednesday says biofuels hold the potential to create 18,000 jobs in the region and...
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Latest World News: Goddard in running for Venus, asteroid missions
Source: Baltimore Sun

Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | updated Tue Jan 12 00:35:36 -0800 2010 | green-news

The winning mission would have to launch by 2018, and cost less than $650 million...It would release a probe to the surface of Venus, where it must survive 840-degree temperatures and 90 times Earth's atmospheric pressure long enough to gather...
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Source: The New York Times

Rockville :: MD :: USA | updated Mon Jan 11 14:24:11 -0800 2010 | green-news

A group of scientists now say they have a possible explanation: the burning of coal formed during volcanic eruptions hundreds of millions of years ago. Coal in that part of China contains high concentrations of silica, a suspected carcinogen, the...
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Source: NewKerala

Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | updated Wed Mar 10 03:05:41 -0800 2010 | green-news

The channel is also roofed over in some areas and lined with vents, characterises usually linked to lava tubes. Bleacher said: "You don''t see this on Earth in [river] settings. "But you see it all the time in volcanic settings...However,...
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Source: Frederick News-Post

Annapolis :: MD :: USA | updated Tue Mar 09 23:03:37 -0800 2010 | green-news

A Frederick lawmaker expects his bill to help the Chesapeake Bay will be passed in the House of Delegates this week. Delegate Galen Clagett, a Frederick Democrat, is seeking greater restrictions on phosphorous in lawn fertilizers. Phosphorous in the bay...
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Source: Washington Post

Annapolis :: MD :: USA | updated Tue Mar 09 20:53:46 -0800 2010 | green-news

Maryland officials have agreed to make developer-friendly changes in a law that requires new building projects to reduce the pollution that rain washes off their roofs and parking lots. The changes -- which provide a loophole for some incomplete projects...
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Source: The Star Press

College Park :: MD :: USA | updated Mon Mar 08 00:32:02 -0800 2010 | green-news

CAC, an advocate of renewable energy and of phasing out coal-burning power plants, vows to fight carbon sequestration anywhere it is proposed in Indiana. Smith calls the technology economically and ecologically unfeasible. He believes seismic surveys are being conducted between...
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