Constellation, Exelon give science center $1.8M
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: charity, conservation, Constellation Energy, Energy, energy exhibit, Exelon Corp., Maryland Science Center, Multimedia
Constellation Energy and its parent company, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., announced a combined $1.8 million donation to the Maryland Science Center for the creation of a new, state-of-the-art energy exhibit. Expected to open in late 2013, the multimedia, interactive exhibit will contain detailed displays about how energy is produced, and how it can be conserved and [...]
Cheaper gas drives wholesale price index lower
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Tags: beef, costs, eggs, Energy, federal reserve, food, gas, inflation, interest rates, manufacturers, prices, Retail, wholesale prices
WASHINGTON — A big decline in gas and energy costs drove a measure of U.S. wholesale prices lower in April. Outside that drop, prices barely rose. The Labor Department said Friday that the producer price index dropped 0.2 percent last month from the previous month. It was the first decline since December and the biggest [...]
Speakers rail against Dominion Va. Power plans
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Tags: dominion, electrical, Energy, power, richmond, utility, virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — Dominion Virginia Power’s long-range energy plans were criticized Tuesday for relying too heavily on fossil fuels at the expense of renewables such as wind and solar and energy efficiency. Activists, grandparents, physicians and solar power producers were among the two dozen speakers at a hearing before the State Corporation Commission on the [...]
Garrett County proposes wind turbine setback
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Tags: deep creek lake, Energy, garrett county, maryland, setback, wind power, wind turbine
OAKLAND — The Garrett County Commissioners are proposing rules to put distance between wind turbines and homes. The formula proposed Tuesday would require turbines to be no closer to an occupied dwelling than five times the device’s height. For a 400-foot turbine, the setback would be 2,000 feet. The formula is part of a proposed [...]
Sarbanes: Environmental education must be priority
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 16, 2012
Tags: Energy, environmental education, environmental protection agency, john p. sarbanes, outdoor educational activities, task force, white house summit on envioronmental education
WASHINGTON — Maryland Congressman John P. Sarbanes says environmental education must be a national priority. Sarbanes made the comments Monday after participating in a White House Summit on Environmental Education. Sarbanes says research shows hands-on, outdoor environmental education helps student performance not only in science and math, but also in reading and social studies. Sarbanes [...]
Obama creates working group on gas drilling
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 13, 2012
Tags: drilling, Energy, gas drilling, industry, Interior Department, oil, president obama, reserves, washington
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it is creating a high-level working group to coordinate federal oversight of natural gas production, amid industry complaints that excessive regulation could stymie a natural gas boom that has pushed prices to 10-year lows. In an executive order signed Friday, President Barack Obama said the group was needed [...]
Wind power may be unstoppable 
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: April 12, 2012
Tags: Energy, General Assembly, house of delegates, maryland, Ocean City, offshore wind, senate, wind power
ANNAPOLIS — John Congedo thinks the failure of offshore wind energy legislation in the General Assembly only delays the inevitable. Those turbines off the coast of Ocean City are coming, one way or the other, he says. “It’s not about if, it’s about when it gets going,” said Congedo, president of AC Wind, a Salisbury-based [...]
Wind farm developers seek more time to start
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 11, 2012
Tags: allegany county, dan's mountain windforce, Energy, frostburg, Maryland Public Service Commission, noise, turbines, western maryland, wildlife, wind farm, zoning
Utility regulators questioned developers of a proposed Western Maryland wind farm for almost an hour Wednesday before holding off on whether to give them more time to start a project embroiled in a county zoning battle. Dan’s Mountain Windforce is asking the Public Service Commission to extend the March 12 deadline to begin construction until [...]
General Assembly faces a busy final day
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: April 8, 2012
Tags: budget, casino, Del. Kumar Barve, Energy, fracking, gambling, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, house of delegates, hydraulic fracturing, infrastructure, natural gas, offshore wind, Prince George's County, public-private partnerships, sen. thomas v. mike miller jr., senate, Slots, speaker michael e. busch, state center, Taxes
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers will enter the final day of the 2012 session faced with a long list of unresolved important issues. Faced with mandatory adjournment at midnight, the long-time presiding officers of both chambers warned their members to be ready for a tough grind on Monday. “We have not wrapped up the budget, or anything [...]
Bills pile up as legislators negotiate sticky budget deals
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: April 5, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, budget, Energy, General Assembly, house of delegates, O'Malley, offshore, senate, wind
ANNAPOLIS — Offshore wind energy, a sixth slots license, funding for a natural gas drilling study and a proposed tax on gasoline could become casualties of a slowly developing budget agreement among state lawmakers. With Monday’s scheduled adjournment of the 2012 General Assembly session drawing near, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., D-Calvert and [...]
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