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proposed statewide to cut runoff pollution: Localities would determine charge to clean up fouled storm water (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
3/3/10)
O'Malley wants MDE to reconsider Exxon decision: Two parts of post-spill remediation discontinued (By Nick Madigan, The Baltimore Sun, 3/3/10) Perdue, Maryland chicken farm sued: Environmental groups say poultry giant and Eastern Shore farm are polluting waters that flow into the Chesapeake Bay (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 3/3/10) National and International News March 16th - 28th - 18th Annual Washington, DC Environmental Film Festival (Various locations around the Washington, DC metro area) Look Ma, No Car (By Kyle Boelte, Sierra, March/April 2010) Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists (By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers as reported by Yahoo News, 3/7/10) All Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury (By David Gutierrez, Organic Consumers Association as reported by Environmental News Network, 3/5/10) Claim: San Francisco giving gardeners toxic sludge (By Evelyn Nieves, The Associated Press as reported by The San Francisco Chronicle, 3/5/10) Siberian Methane Could Fast-Track Global Warming (By Nicole Allan, The Atlantic, 3/5/10) Oil rises to seven-week high above $81 (Reuters, 3/5/10) Humans must be to blame for climate change, say scientists: No possible natural phenomenon could have caused the huge rise in temperatures experienced in last half-century (By Steve Connor, The [UK] Independent, 3/5/10) Questions and Answers on Potentially Large Methane Releases From Arctic, and Climate Change (National Science Foundation Press Release, 3/4/10) U.S. Postal Service to test a repurposed electric vehicle fleet (By Nicole Norfleet, The Washington Post, 3/4/10) Four Democratic senators aim to halt stimulus wind project (By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post, 3/4/10) Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse gas emitters (From AFP as reported by Yahoo News, 3/4/10) The Newest Hybrid Model (By Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, 3/4/10) Iraq Opens Up to Foreign Oil Majors: Western producers like BP, Exxon Mobil, and Shell are enjoying their best access to Iraq's southern oil fields since 1972, but a weaker government could be on the way (By Anthony DiPaola and Daniel Williams, Business Week, 3/4/10) Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way (By Cornelia Dean, The New York Times, 3/4/10) Eight steps to a more eco-friendly kitchen (By Domenica Marchett, The Washington Post, 3/4/10) Rockefeller pushes to rein in EPA (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post - Planet Panel - Post Carbon Blog, 3/4/10) Murkowski wants ANWR ‘on the table' (By Ben German, The Hill, 3/3/10) Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets (By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times, 3/3/10) Freakout-nomics (By Paul Krugman, Th New York Times - Op Ed, 3/2/10) Contaminated Well Water (Reported by Dick Gordon, NPR/ American Public Media - The Story, 3/2/10) Editorial: Program to equip those in need with bikes (The Oshkosh Northwestern - Op Ed, 3/1/10) Folks, a rusty steed is a friend indeed - even in winter (By Marcus Gee, The [Toronto] Globe and Mail, 3/1/10) Gay, Shellenberger and Nordhaus: Closing the clean energy gap with Asia (Charlie Gay, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Special Contributors; The [Austin] Statesmen, 3/1/10) Airlines ranked by consumer groups for recycling (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 3/1/10) Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets (By Jeff Barnard, The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post, 3/1/10) Ducks deaths case at Syncrude tailing pond goes to court: As Syncrude case goes to court, scrutiny of Alberta's oilsands has never been more intense (By Darcy Henton, Edmonton [Alberta, Canada] Journal, 3/1/10) |