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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: United Nations, Science and Technology, Weather, Environmental Issues, 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: Companies and Corporations, Ocean City, Wind Power, Electricity Production and Distribution, Prices
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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, Judges, Earl Ray Tomblin, Taxation, 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: Teaching and Learning, Environmental Issues, Roxbury, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Education
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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: Research, Science and Technology, Science, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Alternative Energy
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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: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Wind Power, The Pennsylvania State University, Technology
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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: Ford, Solyndra LLC, Hybrid Vehicles, Henry Ford, Petroleum Industry
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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, Government, Civil and Public Service, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy
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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: Barack Obama, Solyndra LLC, Environmental Issues, Automotive Equipment, Henry Ford
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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: Arts and Culture, Prisons, Environmental Issues, Regional Authority, Government
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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: Credit Ratings, Companies and Corporations, Roxbury, Economy, Business and Finance, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Washington County to get more solar power
heather.keels@herald-mail.comWashington County is finalizing a deal with a solar power company that could make county government one of the first in the United States to generate all the power it uses on its own property, County Administrator Gregory B. Murray said this week....Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Maryland General Assembly, Rentals
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