Week of May 25, 2009

News From Across the USM Campuses

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Report card to give candid view of bays' health (By Anita Ferguson, DelMarvaNow.com, 5/19/09) [Article quotes Dr. Donald Boesch, President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

University of Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholars Announced - Stanley Kemp, lecturer in the Division of Liberal Studies in the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, for the initiative, "An Ecological Assessment of the Lower Jones Falls: Moving Toward Charting a Course for the Restoration of Central Baltimore's Natural Greenway." (University of Baltimore, Press Release, 5/18/09)

State of Maryland News

Maryland vows to tighten runoff controls: Commitment a response to legal challenge from watershed groups (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/22/09)

60 environmental groups form bay coalition: Choose Clean Water Campaign seeks stronger efforts from federal government (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/21/09)

Allegany Co. considering wind power restrictions (From the Associated Press as reported by The Baltimore Sun, 5/20/09)

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Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal (The Associated Press as reported on Yahoo News, By John Heilprin, 5/24/09)

New Study: Global Temperatures to Rise 9 Degrees by 2100 (Reuters, 5/22/09)

Climate Change Bill Heads For House Vote (By Richard Harris, All Things Considered - National Public Radio, 5/22/09)

U.S. House Committee OKs Climate Emissions Cuts: 83% by 2050 (Environmental News Service, 5/22/09)

World's first battery fuelled by air: The world's first battery fuelled by air - with 10 times the storage capacity of conventional cells - has been unveiled. (The [UK] Telegraph, 5/20/09)

Obama unveils mpg rule, gets broad support: Change driven by 30 percent cut in CO2; will cost $1,300 per vehicle (By msnbc.com staff and news service reports, MSNBC.com, 5/19/09)

Automakers, Obama announce mileage, pollution plan (By Ken Thomas, The Associated Press as reported in The Baltimore Sun, 5/19/09)

U.S. to Issue Tougher Fuel Standards for Automobiles (By John M. Broder, The New York Times, 5/18/09)

Report Weighs Fallout of Canada's Oil Sands (By Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, 5/18/09)

National Geographic surveys countries' transit use: guess who comes in last  (By Kaid Benfield, Natural Resources Defense Council, 5/18/09)