Baltimore Gas and Electric says more hot weather is coming, but it doesn’t expect it will need to use a demand response program that prompted complaints from customers and a review by state regulators. The Maryland Public Service Commission is ...

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About 2,500 customers have terminated their enrollment in Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.’s PeakRewards program after their air conditioning was cut off for hours during one of the hottest day of the year. The PeakRewards program was started in 2007 ...

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This week’s extreme heat and a transformer problem triggered the first “emergency event” in four years for Baltimore Gas and Electric’s energy-saving program that allows the utility to turn off participants’ heating and air conditioning units when demand is the ...

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BETHESDA – Lockheed Martin has announced a voluntary layoff program for about 6,500 U.S.-based employees. The program, announced Tuesday, will be offered to salaried employees in the corporate headquarters and enterprise business services organizations. About 2,000 of those are based ...

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The Johns Hopkins University said it is launching a new master’s degree program, Master of Education in the Health Professions, in the fall. A unique collaboration of the Johns Hopkins’ schools of business, education, medicine, nursing and public health, the ...

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Wednesday stressed that congressional action on long-pending free trade agreements must be linked to renewal of a federal program that helps American workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition. Republicans, meanwhile, expressed impatience ...

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WASHINGTON— With unemployment at 9.6 percent, the Federal Reserve is all but certain this week to launch a new program to try to fortify the economy. Yet the program isn’t expected to do much to ease a crisis that’s left ...

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When Wells Fargo called Baltimore salesman David Devaney in July 2009 to tell him he qualified for a loan modification, medical bills were mounting for his daughter, who was born prematurely, and he’d been forced to take a lower-paying job ...

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