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Commentary by Mike Tidwell

As a boy, I remember sitting in my family's Ford Pinto in a four-hour long gas line during the Arab oil embargo of 1973. My dad told me then, with complete confidence, that oil would be a bad memory when I grew up. Our cars would run on something, he said, but not on this black liquid from countries that don't like us.

Baltimore Sun Editorial

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to promote offshore wind power in Maryland got a skeptical reception from a state senate committee this week, and that's understandable. There are an array of issues to give anyone pause, particularly the project's potential cost.

The Gazette of Business and Politics

By Mike Tidwell and Jim Strong

Labor unions and environmental groups haven't always seen eye to eye in Maryland. The state's "green" leaders often have seemed more interested in trees than workers. And unions traditionally have focused more on short-term wages than long-term threats like global warming.

The Washington Post

by Mike Tidwell

Ten years ago, I put solar panels on my roof and began eating locally grown food. I bought an energy-efficient refrigerator that uses the power equivalent of a single light bulb. I started heating my home with a stove that burns organically fertilized corn kernels. I even restored a gas-free lawn mower for manual yardwork.

A bill has passed in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly to limit federal regulators

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that their agencies will launch a coordinated effort to accelerate offshore wind development. The agencies will operate under a joint plan titled A National Offshore Wind Strategy: Creating an Offshore Wind Industry in the United States. Secretary Salazar also designated the first four Wind Energy Areas under the Interior Department

The weather outside has been frightful but it didn

The smile never left her face, even after Representative Donna Edwards plunged into the icy Potomac River on Saturday with two hundred local activists to urge stronger government action against climate change.