USM National Green Campus
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USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative |
EPA fines city, counties for pollution violations: Baltimore, Arundel, Harford cited for storm-water runoff (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 10/29/10)
Electricity rates will drop next summer, BGE says: Falling supply prices mean consumers will pay less (By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun, 10/28/10) One Less Car changes name (By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun - Getting There Blog, 10/27/10) National and International News Japan looks to ancient village wisdom to save biodiversity (AFP as reported by The [UK] Independent, 11/1/10) Companies fight to keep global warming data secret (By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press as reported by WTOC News, 10/29/10 updated 10/31/10) Bat disease threatens ecological catastrophe: A virulent and deadly pathogen in America is exterminating a predator that is vital to farmers for controlling insect pests (By Jerome Taylor, The [UK] Independent, 10/29/10) Climate Change Denial Pervades U.S. Elections: In the run-up to the U.S. elections set to take place Nov. 2, the amount of money being spent and eccentricities on display have reached record levels. This has been particularly obvious in debates over energy and climate change (By Matthew O. Berger, IPS - North America, 10/28/10) Amtrak acquiring new, power-saving locomotive fleet: Siemens engines coming to Northeast Corridor (By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun, 10/28/10) Global warming ‘unquestionably' due to humans: France (By Claire Snegaroff AFP as reported by Yahoo News, 10/28/10) Exxon Mobil profit jumps 55% (AFP as reported by The Los Angeles Times, 10/28/10) Dubai Faces Environmental Problems After Growth (By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, 10/27/10) A Nano-Solution to Energy ‘Vampires' (By John Collins Rudolf, The New York Times - Green Blog, 10/27/10) China unveils 260mph train line: A new high-speed rail line has been opened in China amid boasts from officials over the use of domestic technology to set world records (Press Association as reported by Yahoo News - UK and Ireland, 10/26/10) UN says lack of crop diversity threatens food supply (AFP as reported by Yahoo News, 10/26/10) News Alert: More Independent Scientists Report "Vast Volumes Of Oil Present On Seafloor"; Independent Research Again Directly Contradicts NOAA/Coast Guard Findings (The Stuart Smith Blog, 10/25/10) DOT, EPA Propose Nation's First-Ever Emissions, Fuel-Efficiency Standards for Trucks and Buses (By Secretary Ray LaHood, The White House Blog, 10/25/10) 70 mpg, without a Hybrid: A new Mazda model debuting in Japan gets its high fuel economy from an improved gas engine and a lightweight design (By Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review, 10/25/10) BP sells Gulf of Mexico oil field assets to Marubeni: BP has said it will sell its interests in four Gulf of Mexico oil fields to Japan's Marubeni as part of its moves to pay for the oil spill there (BBC Business News, 10/25/10) IEA: Unclear If Oil Reserve Growth Will Contribute to Future Supply (By Jacob Gronholt-Pederson, Dow Jones Newswires as reported by E&P News - Rigzone, 10/25/10) Caught! EU business lobby funding climate legislation blockers in US Senate (CAN-Europe, 10/25/10) |