January 3, 2011
Looking back – and ahead
As we start a new year, it’s worth looking back at the big news of the past year – if only because many of those developments will resonate through 2011 and for years to come.
So here’s my list of the top 10 green stories of 2010:
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4) Wind gets a push offshore, and lawsuits on land: The prospects for giant turbines eventually catching the sea breezes off the US East Coast grew last year, with pushes from the Obama administration and from states like Maryland. The Interior Department set up a “fast track” approval for offshore wind leases, and in November invited bids for placing turbines a dozen or more miles off Ocean City. The state’s first two industrial wind projects got built on Backbone Mountain in Garrett County, but conservationists filed suit alleging the turbines would harm endangered bats.
