USM National Green Campus
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USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative |
Road Salt Concerns Some Environmental
Experts (By Kavitha
Cardoza, WAMU - National Public Radio, 2/11/10) [Article quotes Sujay Kaushal, of the
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
Feared coastal flooding has yet to materialize: Ocean City officials expect to examine beach Monday (By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun, 2/8/10) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science] State of Maryland News Don't use lawn fertilizer to melt ice; try sand or litter (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10) On the "green trail" at Baltimore auto show (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10) General Assembly targets road salt in drinking water (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10) [Original article in the Gazette.Net] National and International News Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car (By Todd Woody and Clifford Krauss, The New York Times, 2/14/10) Wyoming considers becoming first state to tax wind energy production (By Matt Joyce, The Washington Post, 2/14/10) Washington's snowstorms, brought to you by global warming (By Bill McKibben, The Washington Post, 2/14/10) Oil groups mount legal challenge to Schwarzenegger's tar sands ban: Californian legislation branded 'unconstitutional'; Lobby group includes UK energy companies (By Terry Macalister, The [UK] Guardian, 2/14/10) Climate skeptics heart the IPCC (mistakes) (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/14/10) As politicians waffle on climate change, glaciers exit Glacier National Park: Gubernatorial frontrunner Hickenlooper flip flops on warming; Senate dark horse Romanoff rails against delays (By Becca Blond, The Colorado Independent, 2/12/10) Business groups challenge EPA finding on greenhouse gases (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/12/10) Snowstorm and climate change: After a dumping in the Washington area, critics are delighting in the irony, and supporters are saying the snow fits the pattern of global warming. (By Jim Tankersley, The Baltimore Sun, 2/12/10) Guest post: The post-Copenhagen view of U.S. climate policy in Europe (By Eric Berger, The Houston Chronicle - The Sci Guy Blog, 2/12/10) More Green Attack Ads (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/11/10) Climate science emails cannot destroy argument that world is warming, and humans are responsible: Climate science can no longer afford to be a closed shop or over-simplify the complexities of a changing climate if it is to reclaim credibility (By Fred Pearce, The [UK] Guardian, 2/9/10) U.S. Proposes new climate service (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 2/9/10) |