Maryland Climate Coalition Announces Mini-Grants
The Maryland Climate Coalition is soliciting submissions for small grants to support climate change work. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to secure some funding to work on this critical issue! The...
View ArticleLighting the Way
Solar energy is on the rise. Over the course of the last decade, the amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the United States has increased more than 120-fold, from 97 megawatts in 2003 to more...
View ArticleSummer Fun Index
Every summer, Marylanders flock to our waterways to seek relief from the summer heat, and enjoy our favorite aquatic activities. Whether we rent boats on the Pocomoke River, go swimming in Assateague,...
View ArticleStar Power: The Growing Role of Solar Energy in Maryland
Our new report shows that tapping just a fraction of our state’s solar potential will yield tremendous benefits for our lives, our environment and our children’s future. The report also demonstrates...
View ArticleMore Wind, Less Warming
American wind power already produced enough energy in 2013 to power 15 million homes. Continued, rapid development of wind energy would allow the renewable resource to supply 30 percent of the nation’s...
View ArticleFracking Failures
Fracking is dirty. From the very beginning of clearing a site for drilling, through extraction, transport and delivery of finished products, fracking poses significant risks to our air and water and to...
View ArticleShining Cities
The use of solar power is expanding rapidly across the United States. By the end of 2014, the United States had 20,500 megawatts (MW) of cumulative solar electric capacity, enough to power four million...
View ArticleReport: Millennials experiencing record heat and extreme precipitation
As a result of global warming, young Americans today are growing up in a different climate than their parents and grandparents experienced. It is warmer than it used to be. Storms pack more of a punch....
View Article10 Ways to Help Your City Go Solar
Last month's Shining Cities report detailed how cities are good for solar and solar is good for cities. We've seen some impressive strides across the nation to momentously expand our solar...
View Article10 Ways to Help Your City Go Solar
Last month's Shining Cities report detailed how cities are good for solar and solar is good for cities. We've seen some impressive strides across the nation to momentously expand our solar...
View ArticlePath to the Paris Climate Conference
Even without Congress, the federal executive branch and states are playing a major role in U.S. progress to address climate change. In the next decade, existing state policies and federal rules such as...
View ArticleLighting the Way
Solar energy is booming. In just the last three years, America’s solar photovoltaic capacity tripled. In 2014, a third of the United States’ new installed electric capacity came from solar power.
View ArticleBlocking the Sun
American solar power has increased four-fold since 2010, but state by state, utilities and powerful fossil fuel industry front groups have begun chipping away at key policies that helped spur this...
View ArticleHitting Close to Home
Since September 2010, weather-related disasters -- from Superstorm Sandy to the drought still ravaging California -- were declared in all 50 states and in Washington, D.C, according to a new,...
View ArticleTurning to the Wind
Wind power continues to grow as a source of clean energy across America. The United States generated 26 times more electricity from wind power in 2014 than it did in 2001. American wind power has...
View ArticleAmerica’s Next Top Polluter
Tyson Foods, Inc. is “one of the world’s largest producers of meat and poultry.” The company’s pollution footprint includes manure from its contract growers’ factory farm operations, fertilizer runoff...
View ArticleNew Survey shows how grocery shoppers think about the environment
Environment America collected over a 1,000 customer surveys from grocery store customers in 6 states and the District of Columbia about their attitudes towards the environment while grocery shopping.
View ArticleA New Way Forward
America has made progress in cutting pollution from cars and trucks over the last decade as a result of improved vehicle fuel economy and slower growth in driving. But eliminating greenhouse gas...
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