Act on Climate in Maryland

Cleaning our water and air means both reducing dirty energy and promoting clean energy. Clean Water helped pass the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act and the fracking moratorium, and works with a diverse coalition of organizations to persuade legislators that fracking is inherently dangerous to water resources and community health.

Chesapeake Currents | Spring-Summer 2018

In This Issue

PDF icon Chesapeake Currents Summer 2018.pdf
Illustration - pollution in the city. Image credit: Artisticco / Shutterstock
Climate Change and Clean Energy

Cumulative Impacts of Pollution

Every community in the state of Maryland deserves to have their health and environmental safety treated with equity and integrity of dedication and concern.

MD_Chesapeake Newsletter_Fall 2019_DyeTest.jpg

Chesapeake Currents -- Fall 2019

In This Issue

PDF icon Curr_Ches_11.18.19b.pdf
Chesapeake Currents - Spring | Summer 2016

Chesapeake Currents - Spring | Summer 2016

In this issue: Northern Virginia Healthy Communities; An Incinerator Win in Baltimore; Winning Primaries in Baltimore; Cleaning up the Anacostia; and more.

PDF icon Download the PDF

From We All Live Downstream

A Confusing Week for Baltimore's Plastic Bag Ban
Maryland
October 15, 2019

On Monday October 7 at 1:00 pm, I attended the Baltimore City Council Judiciary Committee's work session on the Plastic Bag Reduction Bill (#19-0401). It had to do with redefinition of a banned "plastic checkout bag" from a maximum thickness of 4 mils (thousandths of an inch) to a mazimum thickness of 2.25 mils.

Read more
Maryland forest in late summer
Maryland Denies Permits for Southern MD Solar Project
Maryland
August 28, 2019

Today, the Maryland Department of the Environment announced that they are denying the permits to clear cut over 200 acres of Southern Maryland forest for a solar project.

Read more
CB38-2019 Protect This Watershed
Maryland
August 23, 2019

Howard County has a lot of upcoming legislation with hearings scheduled in September. This includes CB38-2019, the Protect This Watershed bill.

Councilwoman Liz Walsh's CB38-2019 is a very big bill that is responding to the problem of waivers in the Patapsco Lower North Branch Watershed. Many laws involving the environment include waivers at the discretion of the overseeing agency, mainly to provide needed flexibility in unforeseen circumstances. When waivers become routine practice, they undermine the effectiveness of that legislation. 

Read more
See More From the Blog