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State
of Maryland News
Energy-saving
plan angers BGE customers as AC goes out: Participants
left without air conditioning for hours as temperatures soared (By Tricia Bishop and Steve Kilar, The
Baltimore Sun - Maryland News, 7/23/11)
Md. Ranks 5th
Worst In Power Plant Pollution - MDE Rep: Results Are Misleading (Reported on WBAL-TV News, 7/21/11)
Constellation
marks launch of Maryland wind farm: 28
turbines rise atop Garrett County's Backbone Mountain (By Scott Calvert, The Baltimore Sun - Green
Living, 7/19/11)
A
Bold Renewables Policy Lures Leading Solar Leasers to Maryland: The state's 20%
renewable portfolio standard and various tax incentives have attracted three of
the country's top solar leasing firms this year (By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News, 7/18/11)
National
and International News
Peak
oil - are we sleepwalking into disaster? (By Dean
Carroll, Public Service Europe, 7/22/11)
Heat,
Drought, Famine All Part of Coming 'Exponential' Increase Of Climate-Related
Disasters: Climate
change will "exponentially" increase the scale of natural disasters
-- so when are we going to take this threat seriously? (By Matthew McDermott, Treehugger.com as
reported by AlterNet.org, 7/22/11)
Oil
Hits $100 a Barrel Again (The Associated Press
as reported by The New York Times, 7/21/11)
UN
countries divided over security council climate role: Western nations clash with Russia and
developing countries over whether climate change is a security matter (By Reuters as reported by the [UK] Guardian, 7/21/11)
Analysis:
Russia's biggest contingent liability: oil (By Douglas Busvine, Reuters -
UK, 7/20/11)
Longest
Polar Bear Swim Recorded - 426 Miles Straight: Study predicts
more long-distance swims due to shrinking sea ice (By Anne Casselman, National Geographic News, 7/20/11)
Saudi
oil exports set to fall in long term (UPI - Energy Resources, 7/20/11)
Montana
Judge Blocks Equipment Bound For Canada's Oil Sands (By Tom Zeller, Jr., The
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 7/20/11)
Climate
Change Brings More Deadly Heat Waves (By Sarah Lovinger, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 7/20/11)
UN
security council to consider climate change peacekeeping: Special meeting to
discuss 'green helmets' force to intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas
levels and shrinking resources (By Suzanne
Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian - Environment, 7/20/11)
Nearly
half of U.S. population facing extreme heat (By The CNN Wire Staff,
CNN.com, 7/20/11)
Undercover
police officer unlawfully spied on climate activists, judges rule: Mark Kennedy was
arguably an agent provocateur, says appeal verdict quashing Ratcliffe-on-Soar
conspiracy convictions (By Rob Evans and
Paul Lewis, The [UK] Guardian, 7/20/11)
Libya
crisis could see Brent hit $175/b in 2012: BofA Merrill Lynch (Platts News,
7/20/11)
What
Makes a Campus or College Town Bike Friendly? (By Scott Carlson, The
Chronicle of Higher Education - Buildings and Grounds Blog, 7/19/11)
Early
sea ice melt onset, snow cover retreat presage rapid 2011 summer decline
(National Snow and Ice Data Center, 7/18/11)
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