The Baltimore Sun (Fri 12 Mar, 2010)
Commentary: Storm water - Pay now and pay later
Staff quoted: Sujay Kaushal

Remember how this winter's snow, so pretty at first, morphed into gritty, grimy mounds laced with road salt, petroleum products and pet poo?

The Washington Post (Thu 11 Mar, 2010)
Planet Panel: Fix the Brakes First
Staff quoted: Don Boesch

Q: With the recent discovery that methane is bubbling out of the Arctic faster than expected, how worried should we be about abrupt changes in climate such as this one? Are there precautions we should be taking that both the political and scientific communities have been overlooking?

National Geographic News (Thu 11 Mar, 2010)
Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Staff quoted: Margaret Palmer

Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.

The Easton Star Democrat (Mon 8 Mar, 2010)
19-year-old sentenced for destroying ram
Staff quoted: Mike Roman

CAMBRIDGE Dorchester County Circuit Court Judge Brett Wilson sentenced a 19-year-old Trappe man to 60 days in jail, 80 hours of community service and monetary restitution for destroying one of the historic Don Pedro du Pont ram statues last September.

The Associated Press (Mon 8 Mar, 2010)
Md. Man Get 60 Days In Jail In Ram Statue Theft
Staff quoted: Horn Point Laboratory

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) ― A 19-year-old Trappe man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for destroying one of the two historic Don Pedro statues taken from the entrance of a University of Maryland lab in Cambridge.

The Washington Post (Mon 1 Mar, 2010)
Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable
Staff quoted: Don Boesch

Nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, this is irony: The United States has reduced the manmade pollutants that left its waterways dead, discolored and occasionally flammable.

United Press International (Mon 1 Mar, 2010)
Manure a growing pollution problem
Staff quoted: Don Boesch

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Environmentalists and scientists say animal manure is becoming a growing pollution problem in the United States.

KBKW Radio (Seattle, WA) (Wed 24 Feb, 2010)
Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea departs for Bering Sea cruise
Staff quoted: Lee Cooper

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, one of the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreakers, homeported in Seattle, departs the week of Feb. 22 for a two-month deployment in support of the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST).

The Cumberland Times-News (Wed 24 Feb, 2010)
Astronaut, FSU alumnus to speak on life in space
Staff quoted: UMCES

February 17, 2010 — FROSTBURG — NASA astronaut and Frostburg State University alumnus Ricky Arnold will return to the Frostburg campus to speak about his work as a mission specialist, which has taken him to the ocean floor and into Earth's orbit.

The Cumberland Times-News (Sun 21 Feb, 2010)
Educators come to area to learn to teach about environment: Rescheduled event wasn't dampened by large snow drifts
Staff quoted: Cassie Doty

FROSTBURG ­— Cassie Doty had to work around the snow drifts Friday.