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Since 2006 Maryland has taken major steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from cars and power plants, and to increase energy efficiency in the State. In 2009 it became among a small handful of states to establish ambitious goals for dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions society-wide. The Greenhouse Gas Reductions Act of 2009 commits…

Since 2006, the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) has focused its Environment program almost exclusively on climate change. The program emphasizes public education on the risks of global warming and implementation of sound solutions. RFF is interested in the development of initiatives designed to enact aggressive policies at the state and national levels to reduce carbon…

Climate has a pervasive effect on the U.S. through its impact on the environment, natural resources, and the economy. To respond to the challenge of understanding climate and climate variability, the NSF's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science-based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take…

NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. While it takes a lot of effort to launch satellites into space, they are ideally suited to observing our climate because they orbit the entire planet many times a day. The speed of…