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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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