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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Out of sight, Out of mind, Out of Control
By Eli Scott, Oakland Field Canvass Director The Clean Water Action field canvass flaunts over 500 letters collected door to door calling for the shut down of illegal injection wells This is the third in an ongoing series on California oil and gas issues, as part of "July: Oil and Gas Month." Click
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What is Oil & Gas Doing to the Susquehanna River?
By Nathan Sooy, Central Pennsylvania Campaign Coordinator In the past 7 years, the Susquehanna Watershed has seen a tremendous industrial buildout of drilling sites, frack pits, condensate tanks, compressor stations, and pipelines. What effect has these oil & gas operations in North Central
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First of its kind: California's groundwater monitoring program for fracking
By Andrew Grinberg, California Oil & Gas Program Manager - Follow Andrew on Twitter (@AndrewBGrinberg) A drilling rig in Shafter, CA, where fracking is occurring among almond orchards and right next to homes. Photo Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking This is the second installment of our ongoing
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Imagining Sustainable Streets
“The siding is all new so the fire must have been recent,” said Rachel Newman-Greene, from West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation guiding our walking tour.
What a Surprise: The Dirty Water Caucus is at it Again
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) As the U.S. House of Representatives takes up spending bills for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Interior (DOI) funding today and tomorrow, I’m thinking of two simple yet astute questions posed
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Fixing the Problem with Power Plant Pollution
By Alex Maykowski, Michigan Program Intern Every summer as a child I traveled up to my grandfather’s home in Northern Lower Michigan. As much as I enjoyed spending time with my grandfather, my favorite part of this tradition was always knowing that just a short walk away was a beautiful lake—a walk
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We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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