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Allan Powell: Climate change is an enormous challenge
“The Third Industrial Revolution” has a much-needed educative value in equipping us to survive in a world of climate change. This book is a “must read” for those wanting to understand climate change, climate maintenance and their...Tags: Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Conservation, Global Change, Wind Power
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Jonathan Lesser: Measuring the full cost of Md.'s wind farm subsidy
With the approval of Maryland’s legislature, Gov. Martin O’Malley will soon sign into law new state subsidies to lure power companies to build windmill generators off the coast of Ocean City. The legislation will raise electricity bills, but...Tags: Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Electricity Production and Distribution, Plant Openings, Economy, Business and Finance
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W.Va. taxpayers want credit for using solar tech
Some taxpayers in the Eastern Panhandle are challenging the state’s exclusion of solar energy from an alternative energy tax credit. A 2011 law allows a credit of up to $25,000 for alternative-fuel motor vehicles and more than $300,000 for...Tags: Environmental Issues, Taxation, Alternative Energy, Earl Ray Tomblin, Justice System
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HCC students get a peek into their solar future
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comSolar panels are coming to Hagerstown Community College. Students at HCC toured the solar farm on Roxbury Road on Monday along with staff and faculty as part of the school’s collaboration with First Solar that was announced in a press release at...Tags: Roxbury, Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Fruit research station hosts open house during West Virginia Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Appalachian Fruit Research Station (AFRS) will welcome visitors to a open house today and Friday featuring tours, displays and activities. The open house is part of the official event schedule of the West...Tags: Science and Technology, Alternative Energy, Science, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Research
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Tuscarora school officials consider installing a wind turbine
waynesboro@herald-mail.comTuscarora School District officials are looking to the sky as they try to expand learning opportunities for middle- and high-schoolers. The district is exploring funding opportunities to install a wind turbine on the school campus. Engineering plans soon...Tags: Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Wind Power, Technology, Engineering
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Letters to the Editor - Sept. 3
We need a real debate on energy policy To the editor: Former Rep. Lee Hamilton commented in an Aug. 21 editorial that a campaign should be about informing voters. One specific issue which really needs to be debated in this election cycle is the U.S....Tags: Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Elections, Politics, Solyndra LLC
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Old Berkeley County landfill eyed as possible solar farm site
matthew.umstead@herald-mail.comThe old Berkeley County landfill near Martinsburg, which has been closed since the fall of 1991, is being eyed as a potential site for a solar energy farm, Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority’s board chairman told Berkeley County Council members...Tags: Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Government, Civil and Public Service, Politics
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Cars, politics and solar energy
No fan of focus groups, Henry Ford is credited with saying that had he polled the people about their transportation needs, they would have requested “a faster horse.” Ford might not have been attempting humor. In the late 1800s, self-powered...Tags: Henry Ford, Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Manufacturing and Engineering, Solyndra LLC
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Art Callaham: Together, we are one
On Saturday, July 7, I saw something I thought I would never see: A liberal Democratic governor from a “blue state,” read the words of Abraham Lincoln, arguably a founder of the current Republican Party, to a crowd largely comprised of...Tags: Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Politics, Executive Branch, Prisons
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley attends groundbreaking ceremony for largest solar power array in state
dona@herald-mail.comUnder a broiling sun, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley joined a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for what will be the largest solar power array in the state — and one of the biggest on the East Coast — when it is completed later this year....Tags: Germany, Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Plant Openings, Economy, Business and Finance
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Solar power proposal expected to generate revenue for Washington County
andrews@herald-mail.comA proposed solar project will generate $515,000 for Washington County when it is completed and about $12.9 million over 25 years, according to County Administrator Gregory B. Murray. The Washington County Board of Commissioners agreed on Tuesday to...Tags: Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Renewable Energy
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