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Week of December 27, 2010
News from Across the USM Campuses
Jan. 11th
- Presentation
of the findings and recommendations in the National Oil Spill Commission's
final report on the causes of BP's Gulf rig blowout and prevention of future
disasters. National Press Club at 11am. The National Press
Club is located at 529 14th St., NW, Washington DC.
Credentialed press only. Public viewing available via live stream at www.OilSpillCommission.gov. [Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is a member of
President Obama's National Oil Spill commission]
2010-2011
Green Events Listing - University of Maryland, College Park
2011
Seminar Series Listing - Center for Urban Environmental Research and
Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Seminars are held on Fridays at 2 PM in the
Technology Research Center, Room 206, and are free and open to the public.
Registration is not required. Visitor parking passes for the TRC lot may be
purchased for $4.00 in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105 shortly before seminar.
State of Maryland News
Jan 7th - Maryland
Forward Forum on Sustainability - Opening remarks for the forum will be at 9am,
stakeholder breakout sessions will be at 10am, and the presentation and
discussion with Governor O'Malley will be held at 1pm. This forum will be held at Chesapeake College, Rufus
M. and Loraine Hall Todd Performing Arts Center?at Routes 50 and 213?in Wye
Mills, MD. Those interested in participating can RSVP
by December 29th.
Feds
to be forced to pay for storm-water pollution (By Tim Wheeler, The
Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 12/23/10)
Maryland
wind project sued over endangered bats: Conservationists
ask court to halt startup of Constellation project (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
12/22/10)
Bay
bill falters in lame-duck Senate (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun -
B'More Green Blog, 12/22/10)
National and International News
Greener,
HFC-free refrigerator set to enter U.S. market in 2011 (By Leslie Tamura,
The Washington Post, 12/26/10)
Deepwater
Horizon's Final Hours (By David Barstow,
David Rohde and Stephanie Saul, The New York Times, 12/25/10)
Bundle
Up, It's Global Warming (By
Judah Cohen, The New York Times - Opinion Page, 12/25/10)
World
economy can withstand $100 oil price: Kuwait (By Shaimaa
Fayed and Amena Bakr, Reuters, 12/25/10)
Early
Bid for a Reactor Site Draws Opposition in Texas (By Matthew L. Wald, The
New York Times - Energy and Environment, 12/24/10)
African
Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power (By Elisabeth Rosenthal,
The New York Times, 12/24/10)
Fed
board: Keep companies from oil spill evidence (By Harry R. Weber, Forbes
magazine, 12/23/10)
Key spill
evidence compromised by BP partners? Federal board cites
'hands-on manipulation' by Transocean, Cameron workers (MSNBC.com, 12/23/10)
On
The Horizon: Liquid Fuels Made By Sunlight (By Richard
Harris, National Public Radio, 12/23/10)
EPA
Announces Landmark Greenhouse Gas Regulations Plan For Nation's Biggest
Polluters (By Zoe Triska, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 12/23/10)
Obama
to regulate carbon from power plants (Agence France-Presse as reported by
Grist.org, 12/23/10)
Researchers
develop reactor to make fuel from sunlight: Scientists raise hopes for a large-scale
renewable source of liquid fuel with a simple reactor that mimics plants (By Damian Carrington, The [UK] Guardian, 12/23/10)
California
beaches ‘contaminated' after rain storms: California health officials have
warned residents to stay away from beaches contaminated by run-off after a week
of torrential rain. (BBC News - US and Canada, 12/23/10)
Bipartisan energy group closes up shop, new venture planned (By Ben Geman, The Hill, 12/21/10)
Probable
Carcinogen in Tap Water of 31 Cities - Washington Post: Analysis of Drinking Water Finds
Hexavalent Chromium, Chemical at Center of "Erin Brockovich" Case (By Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post as
reported by CBS News, 12/21/10)
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