At the suggestion of the power industry, the Ehrlich administration is proposing to exempt about half of Maryland's coal-fired power plants from some of the governor's new rules on air-pollution control, according to a draft of the regulations released yesterday.

CCAN'S Organizing Director and other US youth featured in a story about the state of the youth climate movement.

With a simple commitment to decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels coupled with an increase in renewable energy, Virginia can improve the health, security, and economic strength of its citizens and communities.

We would like to commend Del. Dereck Davis (D-Dist. 25) of Mitchellville for his promise to help pass the Maryland Healthy Air Act [

Del. Dereck E. Davis (D-25) told more than two dozen supporters Tuesday evening that he was certain that Maryland

Virginia's major-party candidates for governor said Friday that they would support tax incentives to encourage the production of biodiesel fuel in Virginia, saying rising gas prices demand government efforts to pursue alternative energy sources.

As I watched the disaster in New Orleans unfold in the past two weeks, my conversation with Bob - particularly this line - haunted me: "We are one Category 4 hurricane away from seeing the demise of this system and New Orleans under water." I later read some of Bob's newspaper stories and devoured the book Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell. "The whole ragged sole of the Louisiana boot, an area the size of Connecticut - 3 million acres - is literally washing out to sea, surrendering to the Gulf of Mexico," Tidwell wrote. "It's an unfolding calamity of fantastic magnitude, taking with it entire Cajun towns and an age-old way of life. Yet no act of God has made this happen. There's nothing natural about it, in fact. Human beings have made it so.