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The University of Maryland’s Center for Global Sustainability was jointly awarded a $2.3 million grant to evaluate nationwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts

The announcement comes nearly two years since President Trump pulled the United States from the Paris Agreement. Since then, 285 counties nationwide have joined a U.S. pact to combat climate change including five in Maryland — Howard, Frederick, Montgomery, Baltimore and Prince George's.

A new report from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science predicts sea levels around the state could rise by as little as 1 foot or as much as 7 feet by the end of the century — it all depends on how much carbon the world emits into the atmosphere.

Joining climate change alliance is only one, small step along path Maryland should follow.

Seven months after a bipartisan group of governors formed the U.S. Climate Alliance in support of the Paris climate accord — and after he previously questioned the purpose of the group — Gov. Larry Hogan said Maryland will join, after all.

Maryland needs to join the group of states that says that they will stand with the nearly 200 countries that have signed the Paris accord, even if the current president will not.

Sadly, the United States remains alone in the world, under the leadership of President Trump and a Republican Congress, in not recognizing the dangers of climate change to our nation and to the world.

Donald Trump may ignore climate change but the world (and U.S.) can't afford to.

President Donald Trump's administration said Monday it will repeal rules former President Barack Obama set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but that were criticized as federal overreach.

President Trump finds problems that don't exist and simultaneously neglects or worsens every major problem facing America, says Robert Reich.

Governor Hogan can commit our state to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, but has failed to take that step.

While every state in our country will suffer from climate change, Maryland stands to fare worse than many others.

Maryland and eight other states plan to further tighten air pollution limits aimed at reducing global climate change

Northeast states, including Maryland, can help set U.S. on a proper direction on climate.

At the July 27 meeting of the Columbia Association board, I was privileged to discuss the importance of CA joining the "We Are Still In" declaration demonstrating America's commitment to meeting the greenhouse gas reduction goals of the Paris climate change accord.

If reducing CO2 is necessary, we should follow the French strategy augmented by Tesla electric cars.

The “ugly environmentalist” exaggerates the challenge of global warming by using ever more hysterical rhetoric, says Jonah Goldberg. 

Divestment shouldn’t be viewed as a way to get back at Mr. Trump for pulling out of the Paris accord. The president will not have to depend on the pension funds in question for his retirement saving

France's president has criticized Donald Trump for pulling out of the Paris agreement on combating climate change, but Mr. Trump is just choosing to cut through the nonsense, says Rachel Marsden.

Efforts in Baltimore and Pittsburgh show climate change reform has a broad constituency.

Calling President Donald J. Trump's recent decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement "ill-advised," the Baltimore City Council unanimously voted Monday to express its intention of upholding the agreement here.

Maryland's governor should be more forceful on subject of climate

Democratic members of Congress called on Gov. Larry Hogan to “forcefully reject” President Donald J. Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.

President Trump abdicates our moral leadership in dropping out of the Paris climate accord.

The Laurel City Council June 12 announced that Mayor Craig Moe signed onto the "We Are Still In" initiative, a national coalition of leaders focused on maintaining the Paris Climate Agreement, which President Trump dropped June 1.

Withdrawal from Paris agreement on climate has become a political hammer for Democrats across the country

Yes, Maryland is already mostly doing what the United States Climate Alliance seeks, but joining is still important.

Gov. Larry Hogan is hosting Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and leaders from Pennsylvania and Delaware on Thursday to discuss the future of the Chesapeake Bay Program — a federally coordinated initiative President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan needs to make a decision: Join other states in the newly formed U.S. Climate Alliance opposing the decision to exit the Paris

Gov. Larry Hogan gave perhaps his strongest indication yet that Maryland won't join the United States Climate Alliance, a group of states opposed to President Donald Trump's decision to abandon the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has signed an agreement among more than 1,000 mayors, governors, businesses and colleges to honor the Paris Climate Agreement, after President Donald Trump said he was pulling the country out of the deal.

Leaving the Paris accord was a mistake. We should adopt carbon pricing.

Gov. Larry Hogan has so far declined to bring Maryland into a newly formed alliance of states opposed to President Donald J. Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, resisting a move made this week by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

According to President Donald Trump, all of these companies are wrong: Apple, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Disney, Microsoft, Google, General

After President Trump announced last week that he was withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, making us one of only three countries in the world not committed to participating, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan conveyed through a spokesperson that this was not an action he would have taken and that he remains committed to preserving the state's natural resources for future generations. It is appropriate that Governor Hogan stated his position on this serious issue, but he did not

President Donald Trump has this single positive value; he makes previous occupants of the Oval Office look good by comparison. Clearly he is the worst chief

The only thing accomplished by Paris climate agreement was to weaken the United States

In the Chesapeake region, efforts are well underway toward combating global warming.

Trump's choice to back out of Paris climate agreement is a possible disaster in the making

Trump's withdrawal from climate accord puts U.S. in danger and makes us a laughingstock

The president is turning away as everyone else aggressively leans in, with renewable energy markets in the developing world flourishing. China has surpassed the U.S. to become the leader in clean energy investment, and will spend more than $360 billion over the next four years to cement this position. India invested close to $10 billion in 2016. By walking away from Paris, the U.S. dealmaker-in-chief has essentially guaranteed that a greater percentage of these investments will be made by

Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank has criticized President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States form the Paris climate agreement.