Last Friday, February 15^th, the Maryland Student Climate Coalition (MSCC) had a major victory in their campaign for a comprehensive University System-wide policy of carbon neutrality. After many months of hard work the MSCC, a coalition of students from 8 of the institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM), presented more than 11,000 petition signatures to the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents. That’s right, 11,000 signatures! That means that almost 10% of the student body in the entire university system signed on in support of this policy!

The MSCC student representatives had been preparing their presentation for weeks and spoke eloquently to the board about the broad support for carbon neutrality. “Speaking for the MSCC and the 11,000 people who signed our petition … we are deeply concerned about the fate of our planet, our society, and our future,” said Ali Adler, a freshman at the University of Maryland at College Park. “We feel that the time has come for our universities to take decisive and progressive action to combat global warming.” Ali spoke while a