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Pie chart of Baltimore City FY2026 Service 664: Waste Re-Use and Disposal spending, showing majority of funds going to incineration and landfilling
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Baltimore City’s proposed FY26 budget fails to invest in Zero Waste despite significant new solid waste revenue, endangering the City’s Zero Waste commitments

In advance of Taxpayers’ Night, the City Council’s annual public hearing on the proposed City budget, Clean Water Action and the South Baltimore Community Land Trust have released an analysis of the FY26 proposed budget showing that it fails to invest in Zero Waste programming and infrastructure

Protect The Great Lakes: Shut Down Line 5
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Michigan GOP Votes to Continue Risking Great Lakes for Oil Industry Profits

"No agency has actually examined the environmental impacts of tunneling through the Great Lakes bottomlands in an area where we'd have explosion risks underneath an operating pipeline. This does not make the Great Lakes safer. This is not safer for Michigan's workers or for our Great Lakes. This actually makes things worse."
graphic design featuring Clean water action's RI Breakfast of Champions Awardees
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Clean Water Action Announces 2025 Environmental Champions

Clean Water Action announced their 2025 Environmental Champions. They will be honored at the organization’s annual Breakfast of Champions, happening on Friday, May 9th at 9:30am at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston.
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Clean Water Action - Statement on Wildfires in New Jersey and Oyster Creek Nuke

Ocean County, NJ – The vast wildfire in Southern Ocean County, including the area where the closed Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is located, could be a harbinger of what is to come as dry conditions persist throughout the state. The wildfire drives home continued disturbing issues involving Oyster Creek, even though it closed in 2018 and is well into a decommissioning.
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