Johns Hopkins to study reducing carbon emissions

Johns Hopkins University will announce plans in the coming weeks to form a Climate Change Task Force, which may includesome high-profile business executives and sustainability officers from across the country, in response to months of pressure from student activists.

Hopkins President William Brody has approved a draft of a formal statement endorsing the recommendations of the university?s Sustainability Committee, which has been studying ways to conserve energy resources and reduce the university?s carbon emissions. According to Davis Bookhart, head of Energy Management and Environmental Stewardship at Hopkins, the draft has been internally circulated as administrators settle the final details.