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Dear Friend,
It’s time to celebrate our Legislative Victories! You are invited to join us for a Victory Party or Picnic! Then take action against fracked gas, oppose expanded highway traffic congestion, join a strategy session to retire MD’s 6 remaining coal plants, get outdoors on a workday or picnic, watch a film, and more below!
Join us for a 2019 Legislative
Victory Party!
Come celebrate our victories, honor our legislative champions and our amazing volunteer leaders and staff, and re-energize for the important work to come.
- Join us for drinks at Denizens in Silver Spring Sunday, May 19th, 5:30 - 7:30pm
- Come out for a picnic at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis Sunday, May 26th, 1:30 - 3:30pm
Your emails, calls, visits, and letters made all the difference this year. See bills that passed here . We made progress on wind and solar and MD is now the first state in the nation with a statewide ban on single use foam! Thank you! Please join us to celebrate our wins.
Tell the Public Service Commission: No Fracked Gas Power Plants in Maryland -Comment period extended!
 The old Crane coal-fired electricity plant retired in June 2018 when operators (PJM) agreed it is no longer needed for electricity in the region.
Now, there is an active proposal seeking to reopen this old polluting facility as a “peaker plant”, using dangerous, fracked gas. It would spew high levels of toxic emissions, even when air quality is already poor on very hot days. Asthma-related hospitalization rates in Baltimore City are nearly three times the U.S. average! The comment period has been extended into May! Tell the PSC: No fracked gas power plants in our Community!
Beyond Coal Strategy Update and Discussion
Maryland still has 6 dirty, polluting coal fired power plants spewing 9 million metric tons of CO2 each year, equal to the pollution of nearly 2 million cars.
Sierra Club is undertaking a coal community transition campaign to retire all Maryland’s coal plants by 2025, and create a coal community transition fund to support impacted workers and communities. We plan to build the coalition of environmental groups, labor, communities, public officials, and partners needed to move MD Beyond Coal and into a clean energy economy centered on equity and justice.
Most importantly, we want to listen to your ideas for making the vision of a coal-free Maryland a reality and discuss how we can work together to grow our movement. Contact Matt.Dernoga@mdsierra.org
Beyond Coal Meeting in Silver Spring
Wednesday, May 1, 7-9 pm
RSVP for address
Beyond Coal Strategy Statewide Call
Tuesday May 7, 7-9 pm
Join us for an outline of our strategy through 2020 Please RSVP for this call to receive updates.
Reserve your Spot for the Sierra Club Jamboree! October 11-13
 Join the Maryland Sierra Club at our Biennial Jamboree this year up at Shepherds Spring for workshops, nature walks, campfire, music, dancing, yoga, camaraderie with other like minded environmental activists old and young. RSVP & More Info
Looking for 2 Special People
 It’s time to start planning the most fabulous event of the year! We’re looking for 2 fun loving, energetic, people to be Jamboree Co-Chairs for the October 11-13 event! Jump in to work with our Chapter Coordinator, other volunteers, staff, and interns to make this important and fun event a success. You can help! Contact Laurel.imlay@mdsierra.org and learn more here.
Baltimore Youth Garden Needs a Watering Tank
 Baltimore Inspiring Connections with the Outdoors(BICO) was founded in 1999 to provide under-served Baltimore City youth with educational, enjoyable, and safe outdoor experiences at no cost to them. BICO recently lost a plumbing donation for the new pollinator garden. Do you have a landscapers watering tank we could use temporarily for the project? Contact Nicole Veltre or Brad Hunter at BaltimoreICO@gmail.com.
We can’t let Trump cut funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program
 Sierra Club Energy Committee’s Clean Transportation Volunteer Gail Landy got a great Letter to the Editor into the Washington Post on the threat to the CBP! Read it here
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Lead with us! Share the outdoors with friends, neighbors and families. Bring people out to explore and enjoy the great outdoors, to find inspiration, and to protect nature! Whether you’re an experienced outdoors person or just getting started, join us for a fun day of team-building to become a Sierra Club hike and trip leader.
