Why is Baltimore City burning our yard waste?
On Wednesday, June 26, the Baltimore City Council's Health, Environment, and Transportation Committee is holding a hearing on Council Bill 23-0466: Recyclable Materials and Yard Waste . Unlike every other County in Maryland, Baltimore City has no centralized yard waste composting program - only
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Buy More Stuff for Earth Day? Buy local, organic, and fair-trade certified if you're going to buy, but consider not buying anything at all, too.
What are you doing to celebrate Earth Month?
By Jonathan A. Scott, Communications Director Everyone wants to be able to “do something” for Earth Day. For anyone who’s too young (or too old) to remember, this is the annual celebration whose first incarnation, April 22, 1970 helped to galvanize and
The Choice Couldn't Be Clearer
We must Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012
In my 20 years of working with Clean Water Action, I have never seen a Presidential race in which the choice was so stark. That’s why earlier this week, Clean Water Action joined with Sierra Club, the League of ConservationClean Water is Good for Business, and for Beer!
This 2012 guest blog post was written by Jenn Vervier, special to We All Live Downstream. At the time Jenn worked as Director of Strategic Development for New Belgium Brewing. This first appeared in The Huffington Post.
At New Belgium Brewing, we not only make Fat Tire Amber Ale and about 15 other
Colorado’s “Big Oil” Congressmen Make Us Pay Twice for Gasoline
On Coal Ash Waste and A Dedication to Polluters
"Look what they've loaded it up," LaHood continued. "Keystone; Coal ash. None of it has anything to do with transportation." - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
Coal ash is nasty. It's what's left over when we burn coal to produce electricity and it's
Too Toxic Not To Regulate
A 2011 Coal Ash Spill on Lake Michigan
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Frustrated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) continued delay in issuing a final rule to protect the public and environment from toxic coal ash pollution, today a group of environmental