Building Maryland's Future 1/14/2010

Sprawling development threatens Maryland’s last remaining open spaces, while global warming threatens to inundate parts of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay waterfront over the next century and create major disruptions to agriculture, natural systems and human health across the state. Transit-oriented development – the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods around transit stations – can contribute to addressing both of these difficult challenges. Transit-oriented development can consume less land than traditional forms of development, reducing the pressure to pave over open spaces. And residents of transit-oriented developments drive much less than residents of sprawling suburban areas, reducing global warming pollution, easing our dependence on oil, and reducing traffic on our roads.

Environment America Congressional Scorecard 2009 12/30/2009

The 2009 Congressional Scorecard released by Environment America found more environmental progress and more champions even as the group noted the challenges of enacting more significant environmental protections. Environment America is releasing the scorecard as part of its campaign to pass legislation in Congress to repower our economy with clean energy and cut global warming pollution.