USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of May 25, 2009
News From Across the USM Campuses
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Report card
to give candid view of bays' health (By Anita Ferguson, DelMarvaNow.com, 5/19/09)
[Article quotes Dr. Donald Boesch, President, University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
University
of Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholars Announced - Stanley Kemp, lecturer in the Division of
Liberal Studies in the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts,
for the initiative, "An Ecological Assessment of the Lower Jones
Falls: Moving Toward Charting a Course for the Restoration of Central
Baltimore's Natural Greenway." (University of Baltimore, Press Release,
5/18/09)
State of Maryland News
Maryland
vows to tighten runoff controls: Commitment a response to legal challenge from
watershed groups (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/22/09)
60 environmental groups form bay coalition: Choose Clean Water Campaign seeks stronger efforts from federal
government (By Timothy B.
Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/21/09)
Allegany
Co. considering wind power restrictions (From the Associated Press as
reported by The Baltimore Sun, 5/20/09)
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National and International News
Gore,
others urge CEOs to back climate change deal (The Associated Press as
reported on Yahoo News, By John Heilprin, 5/24/09)
New
Study: Global Temperatures to Rise 9 Degrees by 2100 (Reuters, 5/22/09)
Climate
Change Bill Heads For House Vote (By Richard Harris, All Things Considered
- National Public Radio, 5/22/09)
U.S.
House Committee OKs Climate Emissions Cuts: 83% by 2050 (Environmental News
Service, 5/22/09)
World's
first battery fuelled by air: The world's first battery fuelled by air - with 10
times the storage capacity of conventional cells - has been unveiled. (The [UK] Telegraph, 5/20/09)
Obama unveils mpg rule, gets broad
support: Change driven by 30 percent cut in CO2; will cost
$1,300 per vehicle (By msnbc.com staff and news service reports,
MSNBC.com, 5/19/09)
Automakers,
Obama announce mileage, pollution plan (By Ken
Thomas, The Associated Press as reported in The Baltimore Sun, 5/19/09)
U.S. to
Issue Tougher Fuel Standards for Automobiles (By John M. Broder, The New
York Times, 5/18/09)
Report
Weighs Fallout of Canada's Oil Sands (By Jad Mouawad, The New York Times,
5/18/09)
National
Geographic surveys countries' transit use: guess who comes in last
(By Kaid Benfield, Natural Resources Defense Council, 5/18/09)
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