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REOPENED: Grants for Your School to Stop Food Waste and Start Composting!

March 11, 2024 | By Gabi Sanchez
In the past few years, Clean Water Action and compost advocates across the state have campaigned for the state of Maryland to give more support to schools to compost and rescue usable food. In December, the Maryland State Department of Education opened the first round of grant applications to local schools and school systems. Did you miss it? Good news: the grant opportunity has re-opened!
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Graphic showing the details of the grant program in the blog post, with clipart of apple cores, banana peels, and other food waste

Testimony on MD SB125/HB486: Knowledge is power around Superfund sites

January 30, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze
Clean Water Action supports ensuring that Maryland residents contracting to buy homes near contaminated sites on the Superfund National Priorities List receive a disclosure of that fact. This is based on our and partners' work on the NPL site at Fort Detrick, where investigation and remediation of groundwater that was contaminated by improper hazardous disposal has been ongoing for over a decade.
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A graphic titled "Where does this pilot study fit into the Process?" "The Superfund process" with a path toward a mountain and the sun, showing the steps in the CERCLA process: Preliminary Assessment / Site Inspection, Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study, Proposed Plan / Record of Decision, Remedial Design / Remedial Action, Construction Completion, Post-Construction Completion, NPL Deletion, and Reuse
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