USM National Green Campus
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USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative |
County
upgrades sewage-spill safeguards: State
to launch creek study for source of bacterial pollution (By Sean Patrick Norris, The
Capital, 3/24/09)
National and International News Winds of Change Evident in U.S. Environmental Policy (By Juiet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 3/30/09) U.S. Climate Envoy Vows Support: Commitment to Global Talks Affirmed Even as Caveat Is Issued (By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post, 3/30/09) Loggers Try to Adapt to Greener Economy (By William Yardley, The New York Times, 3/28/09) Cost Works Against Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources in Time of Recession (By Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times, 3/28/09) White House Announces International Meetings to Address Energy and Climate Issues (By Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times, 3/28/09) Among Climate Scientists, a Dispute Over ‘Tipping Points' (By Andrew Revkin, The New York Times, 3/28/09) Do New Bulbs Save Energy if They Don't Work? (By Leora Broydo Vestel, The New York Times, 3/27/09) Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year (Yahoo News, 3/26/09) Reinventing America's Cities: The Time Is Now (By Nicolai Ouroussoff, The New York Times, 3/25/09) EPA to Scrutinize Permits for Mountaintop-Removal Mining (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 3/25/09) Slow, Easy, Cheap and Green (By Steven Kurutz, The New York Times, 3/25/09)
EPA
Presses Obama To Regulate Warming Under Clean Air Act EPA puts mountaintop mining projects on hold: Move comes after appeals court ruling that went against mine critics (By MSNBC Staff and News Service Reports, MSNBC.com, 3/24/09) Oil plagues sound 20 years after Exxon Valdez: Future risk assessments must look at longer impacts, recovery council says (MSNBC.com, 3/24/09) Democrats to shelve fast-track process on climate bill, for now (By Darren Samuelson, from ClimateWire as reported in The New York Times, 3/23/09) Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees: The mysterious ailment called colony collapse disorder has wiped out large numbers of the bees that pollinate a third of our crops. The causes turn out to be surprisingly complex, but solutions are emerging (By Diana Cox-Foster and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Scientific American, March 2009) |