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State of Maryland
News
Gas
price exceeds $4, but good news may be near (By Michael Dresser, The
Baltimore Sun - Getting There Blog, 5/11/11)
Constellation
to install nation's largest solar roof project (By Hanah Cho and Bloomberg
News, The Baltimore Sun, 5/11/11)
State
battles woolly pest to save evergreens: Crews
inject pesticide, cultivate beetles to protect hemlocks (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/11/11)
'Code
Green' on construction in MD (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 5/11/11)
Third
Calvert Cliffs nuclear reactor clears environmental review: nOther regulatory hurdles remain (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/11/11)
National and International News
Duncan:
No national security without energy security (By Michael Brown, South Carolina Radio
Network, 5/15/11)
U.S.
Oil Production To Speed Up, Obama Announces (By Darlene Superville and Dina
Capiello, The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog,
5/14/11)
UPDATE
2-Obama seeks more drilling in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico (By Jeff Mason and
Tom Doggett, Reuters - Africa, 5/14/11)
NRC
Changes Tune On Plant Safety (By Tom Zeller, Jr., The Huffington Post -
Green Blog, 5/13/11)
Speculation
explains more about oil prices than anything else (By Kevin G. Hall and
Robert A. Rankin, McClatchy Newspapers, 5/13/11)
The
Best Case Against Oil Subsidies (By David Callahan, The Huffington Post -
Business Blog, 5/13/11)
Christiana
Figueres: U.S. Inaction On Climate Change A 'Very Serious Hand Brake' On World
Efforts (By Charles J. Hanley, The Huffington Post, 5/12/11)
Wikileaks:
Hillary Clinton Fighting Secret Arctic Oil Wars (By John Hocevar,
Greenpeace, 5/12/11)
U.N.
Proposes 'Climate Services' To Help Developing Nations Deal With Onslaught Of
Extreme Weather (By John Heilprin, The Associated Press as reported by the
Huffington Post Blog, 5/12/11)
Floods
threaten US refineries (AFP as reported by The [Australia] Age, 5/12/11)
Texas
Fracking Bill Would Be First To Require Public Disclosure Of Gas Drilling
Chemicals (By Ramit Plushnick-Masti, The
Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post Blog, 5/12/11)
Iraq:
MI6 said invading Iraq could secure oil supplies - MI6 told Tony Blair's adviser there was no convincing intelligence that
Iraq was involved in terrorism but removing Saddam Hussain could secure oil
supplies, a top secret memo reveals. (By Duncan Gardham,
The [UK] Guardian, 5/12/11)
Clouds,
a Weapon Against Climate Change? University
of Georgia researchers define a missing link in how clouds are formed (National Science Foundation Press Release,
5/11/11)
Exxon
Pays a Lower Effective Tax Rate than the Average American - Exxon Mobil's
accounting methods mask its low effective tax rate: it claims taxes that are
paid by others, such as drivers at the pump and employee payroll taxes.
(By Valeri Vasquez, Alternet.org, 5/11/11)
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