ROCKVILLE — A five-cent tax on plastic bags isn’t changing the behavior of Montgomery County shoppers as much as officials had hoped. A year after the fee went into effect, it’s generating twice the revenue officials expected. County data shows ...

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PETERSBURG, W.Va. — A new heat recovery system for poultry litter in use at Cottage Hill Farm may hold some promise for energy cost control for Maryland farmers and may even reap environmental benefits. In a nutshell, the heat recovery ...

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County is getting ready to implement a 5-cent bag tax modeled after the one that took effect in the nation’s capital in January 2010. The Montgomery County Council approved the tax on both paper and plastic bags ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The company that pioneered brand-name chicken — Perdue Farms — is now trying to work similar magic with a less-appetizing end of the poultry industry: the mixture of woodchips and manure called litter. For 10 years, Perdue, ...

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Montgomery County has approved a 5-cent bag tax modeled after the one that took effect in the nation’s capital last year. The Montgomery County Council approved the tax on both paper and plastic bags on Tuesday. It is expected to ...

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Does revolution always begin with a single man or woman? In an existential sense at least, the answer is surely yes. We could be talking about the failing health of the Inner Harbor or a Middle Eastern dictator who’s overstayed ...

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