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USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative |
BBC
America - Moment of Change: The Environment (Video, 1/28/09) [Video features the Maryland
Chesapeake and Court Stevenson, of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science, is interviewed]
Lawmakers revisit emissions (Allison Stice, The Diamondback, 1/28/09) [Article cites the advocacy of the Maryland Student Climate Coalition] Donald Boesch, Shari Wilson join climate change panels (By Staff, The Examiner, 1/27/09) Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, is participating in a major study on climate change by the National Academies of Science and Engineering. Boesch, of Annapolis, serves on the overall coordinating committee that will write the final report based on the work of four separate panels. He is one of seven Maryland residents selected to work on this two-year congressionally mandated study, which will investigate and make recommendations on the issues related to global climate change. Officials want to reduce carry-out: Eat IN-itiative aims to keep students eating in the dining halls (By Michelle Cleveland, The Diamondback Online, 1/27/09)
WYPR (National
Public Radio) - Maryland Morning
Radio Program (1/27/09) - California,
Here We Come (Audio) Scroll down Maryland
Morning web page to click on audio for this specific show [show features Dr.
Donald Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science] Team probes waste spills (By Laura D'Alessandro, Delmarvanow.com, 1/30/09) State OKs $57 million to purchase 4,400 acres (By Laura Smitherman, The Baltimore Sun, 1/29/09) Need for unrestrained growth is a myth (By Tom Horton, Delmarvanow.com, 1/29/09) Fighting Catastrophic Climate Change (By Karyn Strickler, OpEd News.com, 1/28/09)
Maryland
Board of Public Works signs off on $62M purchase of hybrid buses Lawmakers seek answers on polluted creeks: Improvements unlikely soon, officials speculate (By Sean Patrick Norris and Liam Farrell, The Capital, 1/26/09) Governor to back reduction of greenhouse gases (By Sean R. Sedam, The Gazette, 1/23/09) Maryland governor to push bill cutting global warming pollution (By Sue Schultz, Baltimore Business Journal, 1/23/09)
Governor
Martin O'Malley Announces Legislation to Reduce Global Warming Pollution:
Legislation Commits State to Reducing Greenhouse Gases 25 Percent by 2020 President Obama's Energy and Environment Agenda (1/2009) Clean the Air With Higher Gas Prices (By Warren Brown, The Washington Post - Column, 2/1/09) Raise the Gas Tax: A Revenue-Neutral Way to Treat Our Oil Addiction (By Senator Richard G. Lugar - R-IN, The Washington Post - Editorial, 2/1/09)
All
Aboard: Public Transit Deserves a Big Chunk of Stimulus (By Roger K. Lewis,
The Washington Post, 1/31/09) The Washington Auto Show Goes Green (By Warren Brown, The Washington Post, 1/30/09) Obama signals his administration may be ready to regulate greenhouse gases (By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press as reported in The Baltimore Sun, 1/27/09) California scores vindication, environmental win (By Samantha Young, The Associated Press as reported in The Washington Post, 1/27/09) New Study Shows Climate Change Largely Irreversible (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration News, 1/26/09) Obama Announces New Energy, Environmental Policies (By William Branigin, Juliet Eilperin, and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, 1/26/09) Letters to the Editor - Toward a More Energy-Efficient Future (They New York Times, 1/25/09) 2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1/23/09) |