The Bay Journal reports that Maryland is warming up to the idea of having plants on the Eastern Shore convert chicken litter to energy pellets. While in the past, the state has been resistant to authorize such facilities, an analysis by the The Chesapeake Bay Program on the benefits of turning poultry litter into fuel in January 2008 has changed many minds. That year, Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler began talking up the idea of litter-to-energy. And Raquel Guillory, the spokeswoman for Gov. Martin O’Malley, said the governor now “supports all technology to address poultry litter.”
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