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Will Pollution be Part of Maryland's Climate Pathway? Speak out now!
Maryland has published a draft climate plan - and the solid waste section needs a lot of changes. Here's how you can speak out!
How I Take Action When The World is On Fire
National widespread issues can be difficult to tackle with limited resources, but when enough of us take smaller steps, we can achieve large goals together and work our way up to win the big changes that we need.
Energy Democracy for Michigan
Energy Democracy is a concept that seeks to give communities greater control over their energy systems and decisions. It aims to promote sustainability, equity and democratic decision-making in the energy sector by ensuring that communities have a voice in the development and use of energy resources.
Coming Together For Equitable Public Power
A number of communities are taking action to explore what it would take to break from investor-owned utilities who are failing to meet community reliability, sustainability, and affordability expectations and instead form a new public power utilities. Over two years and across multiple states, the Public Power Project collaboration explored the perspective of campaigners, public officials, staff of existing municipal power utilities, and communities already served by public power. Through landscape analysis, interviews, and focus groups this report shares insights gained about how public power, in its incumbent and emergent forms, can be equitable, just, and democratic.
How to Shape Maryland’s Climate Plan: No Pollution in our Climate Pathway
Right now, the Maryland Department of the Environment is taking public comments on a draft plan for climate action through 2050: Maryland’s Climate Pathway.
They need to hear from you! We know that we need to move beyond trash incineration and build a Zero Waste future to fight climate change. Keeping burning our trash is not an option.
But the draft plan fails to recommend closing Maryland’s trash incinerators or developing meaningful Zero Waste infrastructure that could cut emissions in the waste sector by 84%. It also recommends creating brand-new industries in Maryland for making gas out