By Amanda Morris for PeterGreenberg.com The Civil War formally ended on April 9,
1865 when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army to Ulysses S.
Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. But news traveled slowly and it
wasn’t until June 19th, more than two months later, that news of t…
Northwestern faculty and alumni explain how greenhouse gases create air
pollution in the atmosphere, how it negatively impacts health, and what must
change to improve access to clean air in the United States.