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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Celebrating Good Times & Environmental Leaders in Pennsylvania
Recently, Clean Water Fund held its annual auction events in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The Pittsburgh auction celebrated its 10 th anniversary, while the Philadelphia event has been going strong for a whopping 22 years.
The events generate financial support for our local campaigns that seek to
25th Annual Fall Celebration Awardee Feature: Saugus Leaders, the Alliance for Health and the Environment
Behold the Saugus Sheroes of the Alliance for Health and the Environment: Ann Devlin, Debra Panetta, Jackie Mercurio!
The Summer We Couldn't Swim
The Summer of 2019 is over and in New Jersey, we’ve been slammed with an ugly effect of the climate crisis – more and often longer outbreaks of toxic algae.
A Confusing Week for Baltimore's Plastic Bag Ban
On Monday October 7 at 1:00 pm, I attended the Baltimore City Council Judiciary Committee's work session on the Plastic Bag Reduction Bill ( #19-0401). It had to do with redefinition of a banned "plastic checkout bag" from a maximum thickness of 4 mils (thousandths of an inch) to a mazimum thickness
25th Annual Fall Celebration Awardee Feature: Sarah Gokey
On October 19 th, at our 25 th annual Fall Benefit, Clean Water Action will present the 2019 John O’Connor Award for Canvassing to Sarah Gokey, a Field Manager in our Northampton Field Canvass.
Putting Drinking Water First in Minnesota
Polls consistently show that people consider drinking water one of the most important public health and environmental issues we face. But policies at the local, state, and federal level do not always reflect this. We think that should change and that we need to act like drinking water matters, we
