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At its core, Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) is a massive database containing information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide. Power generation accounts for 40% of all carbon emissions in the United States and about one-quarter of global emissions. CARMA is the first global inventory of a major, emissions-producing sector of the economy.
mbillard has started an excellant thread over on the discussion forums. Check it out.
The recent passage of the mammoth energy bill could have unintended consequences for the Gulf of Mexico that have nothing to do with oil and gas platforms.
Under the law, production of ethanol is set to increase five-fold to 36 billion gallons a year by 2020.
Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting. Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, anyone who does not own a digital set and still gets their programming via over-the-air antennas will no longer receive a picture. [WJLA-TV]
Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a 1975 assassination attempt, was released from prison Monday.
Moore, 77, had served about 30 years of a life sentence when she was released from the federal prison in Dublin, east of San Francisco, a spokeswoman with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — When it returns to Iraq this winter, I Marine Expeditionary Force will bring more front-line help for its combat forces in the form of specialized mental health support teams.
Who hasn’t had this happen to him? You try to get some help from a company over the phone, only to get stuck in phone automation limbo.
Chapter 1 Framework & Plan Concept
This document establishes a Comprehensive Plan to direct and manage the future development of Charles County. The new Plan updates the 1997 Charles County Comprehensive Plan. Overall, the County is satisfied with its direction since 1997 Comprehensive Plan. The new Charles County Comprehensive Plan updates background information, notes recent trends, analyzes factors affecting future development, assesses the desires and interests of Charles County residents regarding the future of their County, and identifies areas where changes are recommended to the framework established in the 1997 Plan.
The attorney general’s office is trying two tactics today to block a Republican-led attempt to stop new state taxes from going into effect this week.
This morning, the attorney general’s office plans to appeal a Court of Special Appeals decision that upheld the right of attorneys for a group including five Republican lawmakers to get a deposition from House of Delegates Chief Clerk Mary Monahan.
What percentage of the 389,031 speeding tickets issued in Maryland last year went to folks charged with driving more than 30 mph over the speed limit?
Go on, take a guess. How many of your fellow drivers were in such a hurry, or were so into the thrill of speed, or were so stinking drunk that they were willing to put your life and their own in such extreme jeopardy during calendar year 2006? How many people not only violated Transportation Article 21.801.1 - exceeding the speed limit - but stomped all over it?
Parents Protest as Area Schools Delay Learning-Disability Screening in Hopes Of Avoiding Costly Special Education
For many school systems, RTI-influenced strategies have led to a significant drop in the number of special education students. In Charles County, special education enrollment has fallen to 8 percent from 12 percent in 1999. In Frederick County over the same period, the rate dropped to 11 percent from 17 percent. Loudoun’s rate fell to 10 percent from 12 percent in 2001. The national average is about 14 percent.
“Sometimes in life, maybe the best things happen to you after you’ve been kind of crushed.”—Joe Gibbs
Notice of Applications Received for State Nontidal Wetlands and Waterways Permits and the Opportunity to Provide Written Comments or request an Informational Hearing.
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CHARLES COUNTY
07-NT-0218/200762815: MIRANT MID-ATLANTIC, Suite 230, 8301 Professionals Place, Landover, MD, 20785, has applied to construct two railroad crossings in order to construct the Flue Gas Desulferization project that reduces air pollution from the Morgantown generating plant. The project proposes to permanently impact 8878 sf and temporarily impact 7368 sf of Phragmites dominated nontidal wetlands; 10,174 sf of regulated buffer that is primarily in landscape management area and 302 lf of stream channel draining to Pasquahanza Creek, use I waters of the State. The applicant proposes to mitigate for the permanent losses to wetlands through enhancement of existing wetlands at the plant. For additional information on the impacts described in the application, please contact Ms. Judy Broersma- Cole at 410-537-3769 or by email at jcole@mde.state.md.us. The project is located east of MD Route 301 and north of the Potomac River Bridge in Newburg, Charles County.
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