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Black History Month Clean Water Champion: Shay Brooks
Clean Water Action Applauds New Air Quality Standards as Win for Pennsylvania’s Environmental Justice Community
Black History Month Clean Water Champion: Mari Copeny
Coal Free Maryland Waters
Update: Thank you to all of our members who sent comments. The comment period is now closed - we will update you when there is an update.
We have a problem with coal-fired power plants dumping toxic pollutants such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and selenium into our waterways. These pollutants concentrate in the food chain, and already Maryland has fish consumption advisories for mercury in over ten species.
Under the old, outdated rules coal plants were allowed to dump a nearly unlimited amount of toxic waste directly into our waters, threatening our water and the health of communities
Factsheet: HB166/SB146 (Reclaim Renewable Energy Act)
For over a decade, Maryland has misclassified trash incineration - the most polluting method of producing energy - as "renewable," diverting subsidies away from real renewable energy like wind, solar, and geothermal power to give extra profits to polluting incinerator companies. In a year where Governor Moore's new climate plan (which endorses ending subsidies for incineration!) calls for $1 billion per year to meet our climate and energy goals, we can't keep wasting money on incineration that could be supporting new renewable energy instead. The Reclaim Renewable Energy Act ( endorsed in