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Events & News - Mar 22

  • CSGA
  • Mar 22, 2018
  • 4 min read


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Events of Interest to CSGA


Rally for a Safety Study / We Are Cove Point

March 22, Noon - Governors Mansion, Annapolis


March 23, 11:30 AM - Bethesda


March 23, 4 PM - Washington


March 25, 2 PM - Moyoane Association Community Center, Accokeek


Public Hearing on Charles County Compressor Station / Maryland Department of the Environment

March 28, 6:30 PM - Bryans Road Volunteer Fire Department, Bryans Road


Rally for a Safety Study / We Are Cove Point

March 29, Noon - Governors Mansion, Annapolis


Frozen Visions, Science and Art Below the Freezing Point / Cafe Scientifique

March 29, 6:15 PM - 49 West, Annapolis


March 31, 10:30 PM - Fairfax County


News, Information, and Opinion of Interest to CSGA


In a major blow to Maryland environmentalists and their allies in the General Assembly, a House Economic Matters subcommittee voted against a bill Wednesday that would have expanded the state’s renewable energy mandate. The panel’s Public Utilities Subcommittee voted down the measure, HB 1453.


The Maryland General Assembly on Wednesday rejected proposals to grow the state's renewable energy supply and to disqualify some polluting sources of energy from receiving green energy subsidies from state utility customers.



Buying electricity in short-term, fuel-price-based auctions ignores a major savings opportunity and harms Maryland electric customers.


New research claims that official estimates lowballed the risk by, uh, about a factor of three.


As Dominion’s newly constructed $4 billion export facility begins producing liquefied natural gas, nearby residents have been complaining about loud noises coming from the facility.


Don't overstate solar and wind energy in Md. - it's got plenty of room to grow.


Civic leaders in town after town along the 600-mile (966-kilometer) route of a proposed natural gas project have posed for similar photographs, smiling and accepting poster-sized checks from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.


Lawyers for the Mountain Valley Pipeline are asking a West Virginia judge to order the removal of protesters sitting in trees along the pipeline’s route.


The Department of Environmental Quality said Friday that workers violated regulations that barred work in vegetative buffers along waterways.


Trayon White Sr. apologized to the Jewish community, but his bizarre statements about climate are troubling, too.


A federal appellate court sent the case back to the lower court for trial.


An annual survey of North American utilities shows widespread support for carbon pricing and a nearly unanimous rejection of coal power - unwelcome news for the Trump Administration's energy agenda.


The recent congressional budget bill includes incentives to support carbon capture and storage.


According to GTM Research, annual deployments will exceed 1,000 MWh in 2018.


Austin Turner was headed back home to West Virginia on a recent afternoon from his job at the 4 West Mine in Mt. Morris, Pennsylvania. It was going to be one of his last shifts there, as the mine would be shutting down soon.


If climate policies follow strategy set out in Paris and ratchet up over time fossil fuel companies could be putting trillions of dollars at risk.


New treaty compels states to investigate and punish killings and attacks on people defending their land or environment.


It's the latest evidence highlighting the environmental consequences of suburban expansion, often accompanied by more miles driven by cars and larger free-standing homes that require more energy for heating and cooling.


It would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, deforestation, species loss and human mortality. So what’s the holdup?


Central banks are emerging as a bigger threat to the green-energy revolution than Donald Trump.


The governor said his legislation has $300 million slated "for critical infrastructure and the prevention, adaptation and mitigation of climate change."

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