USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of July 22, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Farmers' Market at
Maryland - The market is located in front of Cole Field House, on the
University of Maryland, College Park campus, and is open Wednesdays from 11am-3pm.
Nuclear's
safety lesson for fracking (By Dan Ervin, The Baltimore Sun, 7/22/13) [Dan
Ervin is a professor of finance at Salisbury University's Perdue School of
Business]
Vulnerable
Maryland weighs threat of sea-level rise (By Darryl Fears, The Washington
Post - National News, 7/21/13) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President
of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
State
of Maryland News
In
Baltimore's booming neighborhoods, growth comes with power outages (By
Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun, 7/21/13)
Department
of the Environment reminds residents to take steps in response to air quality
alerts: Hottest weather of the year brings "Code Orange" forecast to most of
Maryland (Maryland Department of the Environment Press Release,
7/17/13)
Bikeshare is coming to Montgomery County! Montgomery County Department of Transportation
(MCDOT) announces the extension of Capital Bikeshare into a number of local urban centers
(Montgomery County Department of Transportation, Press Release, Summer 2013)
National
and International News
Alaska's
boreal forests burning more with climate change (By Bettina Boxall, The Los
Angeles Times, 7/22/13)
UN Climate Report Will
'Scare Wits Out of Everybody': A leaked portion is downplayed as not
representative of complete IPCC findings due out in September (By Common
Dreams Staff, CommonDreams.org, 7/22/13)
Antarctica Ice Sheet less
stable than previously thought (By Science Magazine as reported by
Environmental News Network, 7/22/13)
No
one knows how to stop these tar-sands oil spills (By John Upton, Grist.org,
7/22/13)
Minnesota's
moose mystery: The iconic monarch of the North Woods is dying at an alarming
rate. Is climate change to blame? (By Jessica Benko, Salon.com 7/21/13)
False
Balance Lives At Reuters: Climatologist Slams ‘Absurd' Use Of ‘Unrelated
Climate Skeptics Nonsense' (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate
Progress Blog, 7/21/13)
DC
Court Bluntly Affirms Michael Mann's Right To Proceed In Defamation Lawsuit
Against National Review And CEI (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate
Progress Blog, 7/20/13)
The EPA gets a
new boss - finally (By Lisa Hymas, Grist.org, 7/18/13)
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