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1 dead in weather-related crash on I-95
Found: Minutes ago
Maryland Examiner News - Prince George's County authorities say a person was killed and a young child was injured in a weather-related crash on Interstate 95 as heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hanna caused hazardous driving conditions. Officials say the driver of a sports utility vehicle died after the vehicle veered off southbound I-95 near Powder Mill Road in Beltsville, and hit a tree. A young child in the vehicle was also injured. ...
Solar energy tax credit extension is urged
Found: 2 Months 4 Weeks 33 Minutes ago
Baltimore Sun - Three prominent Maryland Democratic elected officials stood on a grassy hill atop a former landfill in Ellicott City yesterday urging congressional Republicans to stop blocking the extension of federal investment tax credits for solar energy. The credits are set to expire Dec. 31, but Democrats and Republicans are at loggerheads over the issue. Democrats want more wind, solar and renewable energy incentives, but Republicans have objected to paying for them by assessing oil companies. Democrats have a bare majority of the Senate votes, but not enough to veto-proof the bill or prevent a Republican filibuster. The location for the news conference that included Gov. Martin O'Malley, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman was chosen because it is where the Howard government envisions a 7-acre solar array that would produce an estimated 548,418 kilowatt hours of electricity the first year. The power would be sold to the Baltimore Regional Cooperative Purchasing Committee, a regional power grid supplier. The county would provide the land, which is next to Worthington Elementary School, and the facility would be built by Sun Edison, a Beltsville company. "We won't spend a dime," Ulman said. But without the federal investment tax credit for the bank financing the project, however, it won't be built, unless it can be completed before year's end. "We need an energy policy in America - desperately," Cardin said, adding that the United States is a world leader in solar technology, yet it is not used much in this country because of the dependence on oil....
State Democrats ask for GOP support of solar panel funding
Found: 2 Months 4 Weeks 11 Hours 43 Minutes ago
Baltimore Sun - Three prominent Maryland Democratic elected officials stood on a grassy hill atop a former landfill in Ellicott City today urging congressional Republicans to stop blocking extension of federal investment tax credits for solar energy....
Schools Set Sights On Truants
Found: 3 Months 4 Days 13 Hours 12 Minutes ago
Washington Post - Now that Prince George's County schools are back in session, the Board of Education is taking aim at one of the district's most serious problems: truancy....
District Students Head Back to School
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 9 Hours 3 Minutes ago
Washington Post - About 50,000 D.C. students headed back to class this morning and officials said the system's 123 schools were ready for the first day despite delays in an ambitious modernization project that kept crews scrambling to complete their work....
Ride for Officer Raises Funds, Spirits
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 1 Day 5 Hours 38 Minutes ago
Washington Post - Heartache that has weighed on many in Prince George's County law enforcement since the killing of an officer in June began to lift yesterday with the roar of more than 600 motorcycles and a tribute the slain man's family said would not be forgotten....
White Marsh GM plant to use solar energy
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 3 Days 6 Hours 38 Minutes ago
Baltimore Sun - Beltsville firm will install panels on roof of White Marsh plantGeneral Motors announced plans yesterday to install 8,700 solar panels on the roof of its White Marsh transmission plant by spring through a partnership with Beltsville's SunEdison, North America's largest provider of solar energy services....
GM to use solar energy
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 3 Days 22 Hours 44 Minutes ago
Baltimore Sun - Beltsville firm will install panels on roof of White Marsh plantGeneral Motors announced plans Thursday to install 8,700 solar panels on the roof of its White Marsh transmission plant by spring through a partnership with Beltsville's SunEdison, North America's largest provider of solar energy services....
Motorcycle ride to honor fallen firefighter, officer
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 4 Days 18 Hours 17 Minutes ago
The Gazette - Motorcycle ride to honor fallen firefighter, officer...
New Buck Lodge principal seeks to improve test scores
Found: 3 Months 1 Week 4 Days 18 Hours 20 Minutes ago
The Gazette - New Buck Lodge principal seeks to improve test scores...
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