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Testimony on Baltimore City's 2025 Budget

May 16, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

Tonight is Taxpayers' Night, the annual City Council hearing on Baltimore City's budget. Read our testimony on Zero Waste, trash incineration and sewage backups below! And stay tuned for the Department of Public Works budget hearing on June 3.

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Baltimore City’s Clean Water Candidates: Primary Endorsements

April 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

The next term of Baltimore city government will be critical for environmental justice in Baltimore. The next four years will be pivotal for the infrastructure investments we need for cleaner water, cleaner air, and healthier communities in the city. Clean Water Action is excited to endorse these four candidates who have shown strong support for climate action, environmental justice, and public health in Baltimore.

2024 Clean Water Action Maryland Legislative Recap

April 8, 2024 | By Emily Ranson, Jennifer Kunze, and Gabi Sanchez

Today is the last day of Maryland’s 2024 legislative session. As Delegates and Senators work until midnight to wrap up their business, our Clean Water priorities have all been resolved.

Governor Moore and the leadership of the House and Senate failed to act on climate change and environmental

REOPENED: Grants for Your School to Stop Food Waste and Start Composting!

March 11, 2024 | By Gabi Sanchez

In the past few years, Clean Water Action and compost advocates across the state have campaigned for the state of Maryland to give more support to schools to compost and rescue usable food. In December, the Maryland State Department of Education opened the first round of grant applications to local schools and school systems. Did you miss it? Good news: the grant opportunity has re-opened!

Graphic showing the details of the grant program in the blog post, with clipart of apple cores, banana peels, and other food waste

Testimony on SB56: Maryland's Wasted Food Reduction & Diversion Fund

February 6, 2024 | By Emily Ranson

Today, we're in front of the Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee to testify in support of SB56, legislation that will create a dedicated funding stream for reducing food waste, developing composting infrastructure, and supporting the School Waste Reduction and Composting Grant Program!

Testimony on MD SB125/HB486: Knowledge is power around Superfund sites

January 30, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

Clean Water Action supports ensuring that Maryland residents contracting to buy homes near contaminated sites on the Superfund National Priorities List receive a disclosure of that fact. This is based on our and partners' work on the NPL site at Fort Detrick, where investigation and remediation of groundwater that was contaminated by improper hazardous disposal has been ongoing for over a decade.

A graphic titled "Where does this pilot study fit into the Process?" "The Superfund process" with a path toward a mountain and the sun, showing the steps in the CERCLA process: Preliminary Assessment / Site Inspection, Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study, Proposed Plan / Record of Decision, Remedial Design / Remedial Action, Construction Completion, Post-Construction Completion, NPL Deletion, and Reuse

UPDATED: 87 Groups Agree: Burning Trash is Not Clean Energy!

January 25, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

87 organizations urge Maryland's Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee to pass the Reclaim Renewable Energy Act (HB166/SB146) to stop wasting Maryland residents’ money and make more funding available for real renewable energy - at no additional cost to the state budget.

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