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Baltimore beats bomb trains!
Huge news: last week, Mayor Pugh signed the Crude Oil Terminal Prohibition! Thousands of people all across Baltimore - and as far away as Frederick County and even Whatcom County, WA - have spoken out against these extreme fossil fuel methods that put Baltimore neighborhoods in danger. Here are some highlights from experts, workers, and community leaders whose voices helped make this victory possible. These crude oil trains feed a fossil fuel-based economy that is pouring heat-trapping pollution into our atmosphere and damaging our climate. Fossil fuel infrastructure perpetuates a moral crisis
The Latest Developments in the Fight to Shut Down Line 5
Over the course of the Pipeline Safety Advisory Board meetings more evidence has come to light about the condition of Line 5, raising concerns that it is in even worse shape than we had previously thought.
A close call last year in Baltimore - why we need to #stopoiltrains
One year ago today, I was woken up by texts letting me know that a train had derailed in downtown Baltimore and asking me if I knew what was going on. I had been working to fight crude oil trains for almost two years then, so I knew what might have happened if the train cars that had derailed had carried crude oil: an explosion and fire that would have killed community residents in their homes, damaged the campuses of the University of Baltimore and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and changed the face of Baltimore. Fortunately, the cars carried liquified petroleum gas vapors and acetone
Maryland leads against climate change and dirty water
Our national news is full of bad news for the environment, but we don't need the Paris Climate Accords to fight climate change. Here's some good news on our local campaigns across the state fighting for clean air, clean water, and health: Maryland acts on climate with offshore wind and onshore jobs. Many of you signed comments, wrote letters, and even spoke out at hearings to encourage the MD Public Service Commission to think big on offshore wind and make Maryland a national leader by approving offshore wind renewable energy credits to companies vying for space on Maryland's coast. And, less
Carbon Capture and Release
Injecting captured carbon underground to produce more oil is promoted as a climate mitigation policy. This 2018 report exposes these oversight failures and challenges the assertion that federal subsidies for carbon used in enhanced oil recovery could ever be considered an effective climate mitigation policy.
