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2017 Annapolis in Spring

Maryland's Clean Water Priorities at Crossover

March 30, 2026 | By Jennifer Kunze
On Monday, Maryland passed a critical legislative deadline called “Crossover.” To keep moving forward after this deadline, a bill must have passed either the Senate or the House and crossed over into the opposite chamber. With less than three weeks to go until the end of Maryland’s legislative
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A Champion for Clean Water: Peter Lockwood

January 22, 2018 | By Michael Kelly
If you want to make change, you have to get involved. It's an ethos we live by at Clean Water Action and it was embodied by one of our founding board members, Peter Lockwood. Peter was a tax lawyer and a champion for clean water. He was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall during his first term on the Supreme Court. He traveled to the south during Freedom Summer and was part of the civil rights movement throughout the 60s. He helped found Clean Water Action in 1972 and was a guiding light for the organization for more than 40 years. He will be missed, sorely.
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Eco...Waste?

January 16, 2018 | By Maura Toomey
Since I started my new role as Clean Water Action's ReThink Disposable Coordinator, I’ve been talking with many business owners and people in the community about the very exciting topic of waste, in particular, single-use disposables like plastic straws, cutlery and bags and foam take out containers
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New Year, New Victories

January 11, 2018 | By Amy Goldsmith
We're only 12 days into the New Year, and we've celebrated some major victories for our health and environment. It's all because Clean Water Action members like you took the time to take action! Whether you called, emailed, or wrote to your legislators, you helped us accomplish the following:
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For 2017 highlights, look to Massachusetts

January 2, 2018 | By Elizabeth Saunders
For those of us fighting for environmental protection in the United States, 2017 was not considered a banner year. But if you look beneath the surface of the decimated, damage-doing EPA, you found cities, states, companies and even everyday people doing the work that the federal government can’t be
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