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There are many ways to help! Does clicking on an action alert link help? YES! Speaking with your legislators in person at Lobby Night? YES! Meeting other activists and learning about the issues at movie nights, potlucks, and on hikes? YES! Sign up below! And Happy New Year 2018!
Please help to pass the Sierra Club's top environmental priorities in 2018... Write to your Maryland legislators now
Click on the following links to write your legislators in support of our Chapter's four top priorities for the 2018 General Assembly session:
- Protect our forests by strengthening the Forest Conservation Act
- Clean up our waterways, beaches, and land by banning the sale and use of foam food containers
- Support public transit by providing Metro with additional, dedicated funding for critical system improvements
- Improve community input regarding proposed gas infrastructure projects, and ensure analysis of their potential health impact
2018 Lobby Night In Annapolis - Reserve the evening of Feb 26 for one of our biggest events of the year
Each year, the Maryland Sierra Club hosts one of the biggest grassroots lobby events of the legislative session. Please sign up early for our 2018 Lobby Night! Join us in Annapolis to urge your elected officials to vote for the environment, including to protect our forests, ban foam food containers, create more transparency around gas infrastructure proposals, and secure desperately needed, long-term dedicated funding for Metro. Monday, Feb 26 at 4 pm RSVP here
70 People Attended Forest Conservation Act Webinar
Clean Equitable Transportation & Smart Growth Launch 
Sierra Club Maryland is about to launch a bold, multi-year initiative to promote clean, equitable transportation and smart growth in our state. Why? Transportation is now the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the country and a major source of smog-forming pollution, which is hazardous to human health.
We will support dedicated, long-term funding for Metro; work with the communities, organizations, and the state to promote regional clean transportation policies to reduce pollution and create modern and equitable systems; promote more transit, electric vehicle usage, bicycling and smart growth; and fight proposed highway expansions. Do any of these activities sound interesting to you? Please attend the kickoff Thursday Feb 8th RSVP and Info here
Welcome new Western MD Conservation Organizer Deirdre Lally
 We're thrilled to welcome Deirdre Lally as our new Western Maryland Beyond Gas organizer. Deirdre will be based in Frostburg and will support Western Maryland leadership and capacity building, in addition to her work fighting the proposed Potomac Pipeline. Learn more about Deirdre here.
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100% Clean Energy Bill Introduction Rally Thursday Feb 1
 Support legislation for 100% clean energy in Maryland. Attend the bill-introduction rally and press conference Thursday Feb 1 @ noon to officially introduce the bill that will move Maryland to 100% clean energy! This is the strongest climate bill ever introduced in Annapolis, and we need your help. RSVP here, write your legislators in support, and learn more about the 100% bill
Warm up with us at the Anne Arundel Annual Potluck Dinner Celebration Saturday Feb 3
Were celebrating the Anne Arundel Sierra Club's 34th birthday! Join us for a potluck dinner and a fun evening with great food and friends! Welcome Elaine Lutz with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, learn about forest preservation, exchange ideas, and honor environmental activists. RSVP Here
MD Appalachian Trail Washington Monument State Park Saturday Feb 10
Join Catoctin Sierra Club for a moderate, 6 mile hike along the Appalachian Trail from the Washington Monument in Boonsboro to the I-70 footbridge/Route 40 and back RSVP and Details Here.
"Bag It" movie and discussion in Ellicott City Tuesday Feb 13
Award-winning documentary explains why we object to plastic bags. The Sierra Club, Indivisible Howard County, and Trash-Free MD will discuss ways we can reduce plastic-bag use. Conversation starts at 6:30 pm; Movie at 7:30 pm. RSVP and Details Here
Annapolis Rally and Candlelight Vigil to Stop the Potomac Pipeline
Thursday Feb 15
You're invited to join Maryland and West Virginia residents, landowners, and activists on 2/15at 6 pm as we rally at Lawyer's Mall in Annapolis and then march to Governor Hogan's Mansion for a candlelight vigil urging him to reject the Potomac Pipeline! RSVP Here.
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Thank you so much for all your support for the Sierra Club Maryland Chapter!
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