Category: Environment
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Students Test Their Schools
Students Test their Schools Students at Patterson High School and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute are about to get new science and environmental health laboratories: their schools. Johns Hopkins and Cool Green Schools are partnering on a community research grant to provide three classes of high school students with mentors, testing equipment, and funding so they can…
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So.. Your Plan is to Move the School Closer to the Superfund Site?
Ever discover something a little late into the process? “You aren’t eating those blackberries, are you?.. Didn’t you know this is a Superfund site?” The president of the neighborhood association was looking at me with concern as my blue stained fingers and lips were answering her questions all by themselves as I froze, wide-eyed in…
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Real Life Lessons: Should Maryland Stop Smoking?
There is a great STEM learning project in our air. Should Maryland stop smoking?
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Sierra Club testimony on RGGI at the Maryland Department of the Environment
David Smedick , Maryland Beyond Coal Representative, testifies that polling showed that a vast majority of Marylanders are in favor of RGGI and want Maryland to continue to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Grumbles on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Secretary Gumbles of the Maryland Department of the Environment discusses whether Maryland should remain in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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Unfair burdens: How poor and minority communities suffer most from polluting industries.
The burden of pollution is unfairly placed largely on poor and minority communities where many of the polluting power plants and industries are located.