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Week of October 14, 2013

News from Across the USM Campuses

Maryland Gov. O'Malley touts huge Chesapeake Bay oyster planting: Population remains far from its highest levels (DelawareOnline.com, 10/12/13)

Conference highlights need for environmental planning (By Shauna Thompson, MyEasternShoreMD.com, 10/7/13)

Students Take Top Prize for Intelligent Trashcan (UMD Right Now, 10/7/13)

State of Maryland News

Governor O'Malley Receives National Environmental Education Award (AccessDNR, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 10/11/13)

State Officials Comment on Climate Change Effects at Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Conference (Conduit Street, Maryland Association of Counties, 10/9/13)

DNR Hosts More Than 50 Day to Serve Events (Maryland Department of Natural Resources, DNR News, 10/8/13)

National and International News

Think a New Economy Is Possible? Meet the Man Already Making it Happen

Rob Hopkins helped start the first Transition Town. Now it's a global network of thousands of communities showing no signs of slowing down. (By Tara Lohan, Alternet.org - Environment Blog, 10/14/13)

US Court: Transcanada's Keystone XL Profits More Important than Environment (By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog as reported by CommonDreams.org, 10/14/13)

Study links warmer water temperatures to greater levels of mercury in fish (By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post - Health and Science, 10/13/13)

Bowdoin College Solar Panel Installation Will Be Largest In Maine (By James Gerken, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 10/11/13)

An Unprecedented Antarctic Disaster, Unfolding in Darkness (By Jonathan Lilly, The Huffington Post - Science Blog, 10/11/13)

Nearly 70 percent of Fox climate pundits doubt global warming (By Chris Mooney, Grist.org, 10/10/13)

Climate Change Will Bring Conditions Outside Historical Variability In Coming Decades (By Andrew Freeman, Climate Central as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 10/9/13)

Are Utility Companies Out to Destroy Solar's 'Rooftop Revolution'? In California, customers who install solar systems and battery arrays are finding themselves cut off from grid (By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 10/9/13)

L.A. Times Says It Won't Publish Letters Pushing Climate Denial And Other ‘Errors Of Fact'. Deniers Object. (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 10/9/13)

A New Study Calculates the Year Climate Change Will Hit Your City (Smithsonian.com - Surprising Science Blog, 10/9/13)

Al Gore: The Media Is 'Frightened to Death' of Talking About Climate Change (By Emma Green, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 10/8/13)

PETM Shocker: When CO2 Levels Doubled 55 Million Years Ago, Earth May Have Warmed 9°F In 13 Years (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 10/8/13)

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