State
of Maryland News
April
12th - Deadline for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's "Save the Bay"
Photo Contest - The contest is open to both amateur and professional
photographers. We are seeking photographs that illustrate the positive aspects
of the Bay and its rivers and streams. We want to see your vision of the Bay
region-from Pennsylvania to Virginia, from the Shenandoah Mountains to the
Eastern Shore. Images depicting people, wildlife, recreation, and farms within
the watershed will all be considered. All photos must include water from the
Chesapeake Bay or a river, stream, creek, or other body of water inside the
Chesapeake Bay watershed.
April 13th - Howard
County GreenFest 2013 - Green
Communities: Get Up. Get Out. Get Green. For
more information, visit www.howardcountymd.gov.
This event will be held from 10 am - 4 pm at Burrill Galleria and Quad, on the
campus of Howard Community College.
April 16th
- Baltimore
County's Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee Seeks Community Input on
Prioritizing Projects - County Executive Kevin Kamenetz
announced that Baltimore County's Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee
(PBAC) is seeking community input as they begin to move forward on implementing
a number projects identified in the recently adopted Eastern and Western
Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Plans. Members of the public are invited to voice
their preferences on which projects to fund first at a Citizen Input Meeting on
Tuesday, April 16 at 5 p.m. in the Jefferson Building Hearing Room (Room 104),
105 West Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD, 21204. For more information, contact Kathy Schlabach, Department of
Planning. [Scroll down linked page to view information]
April
is Environmental Education Month in Maryland (Maryland Department of
Natural Resources, Press Release, 4/1/13)
National
and International News
Climate Change to
Bring 'Superstorm Sandys' to Europe: Hurricanes and extratropical storms will
bring 'far reaching consequences' (By Andrea Germanos, CommonDreams.org,
4/8/13)
Climate
Change in the Southeastern U.S. Could Mean Endless Severe Thunderstorms (By
John Metcalfe, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 4/8/13)
Arkansas
town in lockdown after oil spill nightmare (By Suzi Parker, Grist.org,
4/5/13)
Air pollution-caused deaths
total over one million per year in China (By Allison Winter, Environmental
News Network, 4/5/13)
Keystone
XL Stirs Montana Farmer's Climate Change And Crop Concerns (By Lynne
Peebles, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/4/13)
Climate
Change Will Double Area Burned In U.S. Wildfires By 2050, Report Warns (By Katie Valentine,
ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 4/4/13)
Monsanto
Protection Act put GM companies above the federal courts: Campaigners say that not even the US
government can now stop the sale, planting, harvest or distribution of any GM
seed (By John Vidal, The [UK] Guardian - Environment
Blog, 4/4/13)
Exxon's Unfriendly
Skies: Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?
(By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog as reported by CommonDreams.org, 4/4/13)
Arkansas Attorney General
opens probe for Pegasus pipeline spill (By Richard Mccallum, Digital
Journal - Environment, 4/2/13)
Invention
of the day: A bladeless wind turbine (By Henry Grabar, Grist.org, 4/1/13)
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