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]
State of Maryland News
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
(By Scott Dance, Baltimore
Business Journal, 1/28/09)
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
(The Office of Governor Martin O'Malley - Press Release, 1/23/09)
National and International News
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)
Going Green to Make Green: Students Enroll in Green Jobs Training in Hopes of
Capitalizing on Next Economic Boom (By Laura Coverson, ABC News, 1/31/09)
To Protect Public Land, Eco Protestors Get Creative (By Bryan Walsh, Time
Magazine on-line, 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)
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