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Proposed EPA budget would massively cut Chesapeake Bay Program
March 6, 2017
CROSS POSTED FROM WATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKEThe Trump administration is reportedly asking for a reduction in Chesapeake Bay Program expenditures from $73 million to $5 million in the next fiscal year, according to a story from the ...
Fracking Ban passes house committee, HB 1325
March 6, 2017
In case you missed it, HB 1325, the Maryland fracking ban passed out of the House Environment and Transportation Committee at Friday March 3rd. The vote was a whopping 18-4, with 2 absenses.Link to Committee Vote Count HERE.Please...
Don't Frack Maryland March & Rally
March 3, 2017
On Thursday, 1000+ Maryland residents marched through the streets of Annapolis calling on legislators to ban a statewide ban on fracking! The event was organized by the members of the Don't Frack MD Coalition. Thanks to the active engagement of...
Help expand first Marine Sanctuary in Maryland Mallows Bay-Potomac National Marine Sanctuary
February 27, 2017
Mallows - Potomac National Marine Sanctuary will be the first new National Marine Sanctuary in nearly 20 years - and the first ever in the Chesapeake Bay! Mallows Bay Potomac Marine Sanctuary Please support this nomination. Tell the National...
Ask Senator Cardin to vote NO on Pruitt Nomination
February 16, 2017
TOMORROW: SENATE TO VOTE ON PRUITT. Ask Senator Ben Cardin to VOTE NO ON PRUITT!The Senate is taking up a cloture vote today and will do a formal vote tomorrow (Friday) on the nomination of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental...
Marc Elrich’s statement on resolution urging Maryland to ban fracking
February 14, 2017
From the office of Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich:ROCKVILLE, Md., February 14, 2017—Montgomery County Council today unanimously approved a resolution, introduced by Councilmember Marc Elrich, urging the Maryland General...
Maryland passes Clean Energy Jobs Act (again)
February 13, 2017
In the beginning of February, the Maryland House and Senate voted to put the Clean Energy Jobs Act into law (again),This bill, passed in 2016, ensures that Maryland gets 25% of its electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2020...
Letter to Secretary of MDE on VW Settlement
January 31, 2017
On Monday January 30th, 2017, the Sierra Club and partner organizations sent the following letter to Ben Grumbles, Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environmenta, regarding Maryland's involvement in the Volkswagon settlement. We the...
Leading By Example, Baltimore Students Put in Work in Their School Garden
January 29, 2017
Nicole Veltre, who is the Sierra Club Baltimore Inspiring Connections Outdoors Co-Chair, as well as a science teacher at Digital Harbor High School (DHHS) in Baltimore City, likes to reinforce a “lead by example” attitude that shows rather than...
Hundreds Oppose Fracking at Environmental Legislative Summit
January 29, 2017
It may not have been her intention, but Senator Joan Carter Conway rallied the anti-fracking troops on Jan. 26 when she defiantly said, “You cannot get a ban off the Senate floor—simple as that.” Several hundred people were in Annapolis for the...