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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...
MD Fracking Regulations Hearing
December 22, 2016
On December 20, 2016 the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, & Legislative Review of the Maryland General Assembly held a hearing on the fracking regulations released by MDE. We attended to offer testimony and show our opposition to...
From Jemez to Here
December 9, 2016
From Mike Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director.December 8, 2016Exactly 20 years ago, on December 8, 1996, 40 people at a meeting on globalization and trade agreed on a set of six principles for democratic organizing. The...
Sierra Club letter to UMD regarding turf athletic fields
December 5, 2016
On November 4th, the Sierra Club wrote a letter to University of Maryland, College Park president Wallace D. Loh, expressing concern over the University's shift towards synthetic artificial turf athletic fields. Earlier this year Doron...
NYT Opinion Piece: Cities and States Lead on Climate Change
November 30, 2016
Jeff Biggers' Nov. 30 opinion piece in the New York Times, "Cities and States Lead on Climate Change," shows the strength of clean energy in America's heartland and the impressive progress that cities across the U.S. are making on carbon emission...
Baltimore Area Coal Plant Files For Deactivation
November 22, 2016
Since its first day of operation 55 years ago the C.P. Crane coal-fired power plant has been a major source of dangerous air pollution for the Baltimore area. Now the plant, owned by Middle River Power (a subsidiary of Avenue Capital Group LLC), has...