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Dear Friend,
Join hundreds of Sierrans at Lobby Night on Feb 25 in Annapolis to support important bills to protect the environment, Demand 100% renewables, bans on foam food containers, chlorpyrifos, and toxic synthetic turf. Meet our Spring interns. More below!
Attend our Annual MD Sierra Club Lobby Night! Monday February 25
 Make plans now to attend our annual Lobby Night in Annapolis, on Monday evening, February 25th! Join with hundreds of other Sierra Club volunteers to speak directly with your legislators about the Sierra Club’s bold legislative agenda for the 2019 General Assembly session. Please register here.
Contact legislators to support a strong Clean Energy Jobs Act
 Maryland has an opportunity with the Clean Energy Jobs Act to increase the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 50% by 2030, with a plan for 100% clean energy by 2040. The incineration lobby is fighting tooth and nail to keep subsidies for trash burning in the RPS. Contact your legislators here. If you want to volunteer to help get members in critical districts to contact their legislators, contact Matt Dernoga at matt.dernoga@mdsierra.org
Tell your Legislators to Protect Maryland from Fracked Gas Pipelines
 Even though Maryland banned fracking in 2017, the state is still facing expansion of fracked gas infrastructure in Maryland. New fracked gas pipelines pose significant risks to our state’s water resources, threaten communities and our climate. Send your legislators a message telling them to support legislation to protect Maryland from fracked gas pipelines!
Protect Our Air And Climate From Expanded, Polluting Highways
 Maryland must embark on creating a 21st century, climate-friendly, clean transportation sector; the Governor's expensive proposal to widen the Capital Beltway, I-270, and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway is antithetical to doing this. Write your legislators in support of this priority bill!
Toxic Tire Waste on Children’s Playgrounds
 Protect children and the environment from plastic pollution from synthetic "synturf " fields and playgrounds.
And the Winner is...
 Congratulations to our fellow Wyoming Chapter which placed number 1 in the Sierra Club Monthly Donor Competition, increasing their monthly donors by an incredible 3.4% of their entire membership in just two weeks! Honorable mention and kudos go to the North Dakota and DC Chapters.
Our Maryland Chapter signed up 26 new monthly donors. In all, an impressive 643 members committed to supporting their local Sierra Chapters with monthly sustaining donations. Well done!
The competition may be over but it’s NOT too late to become a sustaining donor.
Thank you everyone!
Ban Single-Use Foam Food Containers Statewide
 Write to your legislators and encourage them to ban foam food containers in Maryland! These containers are a major part of the worsening plastic pollution harming our streams and oceans, and are easily replaced by environmentally-friendly substitutes.
Baltimore calls for MD General Assembly to Move Beyond Coal and Set up a Transition Fund for Workers
 On February 4th, Baltimore City Councilman Kristerfer Burnett introduced a resolution calling for Maryland to move Beyond Coal and set up a Coal Community Transition Fund to assist impacted workers. Baltimore City Council unanimously passed the resolution!
This is the start of a new phase of our Beyond Coal Campaign to convince the Maryland General Assembly to pass legislation that guides us off coal in the next decade.
Contact our Beyond Coal Representative Matt Dernoga matt.dernoga@mdsierra.org to get involved. |
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College Park Walk: The Past Present, and Future of Transportation, Sunday February 24
 8-9 mile walk round trip along paved trails. Meet at Herbert Wells Ice Arena parking lot, just east of College Park Metro to Lake Artemisia. Discuss how local transportation systems (RI Trolley, Purple line etc) are important for people getting around.
RSVP & More Info
Prince George's Potluck & Climate Change Speaker, Sunday February 24
 Join us for the Prince George's Sierra Club Group's Potluck Social. Guest speaker Dr. Astrid Caldas, Senior Climate Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, will provide an update on climate change and its impacts, in light of recent high-profile reports. Meet other Sierra Club members, celebrate local victories, share your ideas about the coming year. Door prizes! RSVP & More info
Calvert Comprehensive Plan, Tuesday February 26
 Protect Calvert County from unbridled growth, increased traffic, and destruction of our forests and clean air and water. More info
Protect the Monocacy River, Wednesday February 27
 Speak up at The Frederick County Council public hearing to protect this critical resource for the region. The Monocacy River Plan should chart a course for actually improving the River’s health as a drinking water supply, recreational resource, and wildlife habitat corridor. See more information and sample comments here.
Largest Forest in Southern MD Threatened, Wednesday February 27
 The largest contiguous forest in Southern MD is threatened by an over 200 acre clear-cut by an unlikely source, Georgetown University's Sustainability program. This forest is part of the ancestral homeland of the Piscataway people and is of high ecological value with streams and wetlands and is designated by Audubon as an important bird area. Read more here
Deer Management Plan and a Suburban Archery Corridor for MD, Thursday February 28
 Sierra Club MD supports deer management to keep population at the correct natural levels for
- biological diversity and healthy ecosystems, and
- to reduce risk of harm to humans (via lyme disease from over population of mouse/tick/deer cycles, non native invasive weeds, and car accidents with deer.)
What Is a Green New Deal?
 A big, bold transformation of the economy to tackle the twin crises of inequality and climate change. It would mobilize vast public resources to help us transition from an economy built on exploitation and fossil fuels to one driven by dignified work and clean energy. Locally Bill Neil calls for Western MD to have a Green New Deal.
Read more and take action for A Green New Deal
Meet our Spring Sierra Club MD Interns
 You might have noticed our awesome interns setting up meetings, taking notes, organizing phone banks, posting blogs, outreaching at events, leading stewardship work days, and getting people out on hikes and paddles to learn about conservation issues. Meet our Spring 2019 interns.
We appreciate and depend on your donations large and small. Thank you so much for all your support for the Sierra Club Maryland Chapter.
 Thank you for your donation to the Sierra Club Maryland Chapter!
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