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...
Frederick :: MD :: USA
| updated Wed Mar 10 23:14:19 -0800 2010
| green-news
Brook trout, native to Frederick County, are rare these days, but wildlife experts hope to maintain and perhaps increase their numbers in local streams. Two weeks before trout season opens March 27, a group of watershed professionals from Maryland, Pennsylvania,...
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...
Bethesda :: MD :: USA
| updated Wed Mar 03 04:15:21 -0800 2010
| green-news
to promote nuclear power as a “clean” energy source and as a way to create tens of thousands of new jobs during an economic downturn. Whether the political renewal leads to a commercial renaissance is unclear. Wall Street has been...
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