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Resolve to Help Us Win in 2018
As the new year begins, we are gearing up for another legislative session in Maryland. Here are our priorities for this year.
Forest Conservation Act: Maryland is losing forest to development daily and we are not adequately replacing those trees. Forests are vital for the health of Maryland’s waterways - they not only filter pollutants but they also act like a big sponge and soak up floodwaters. We need an amended Forest Conservation Act that will protect our most important forests.
Fix It, Fund It: The DC metro system needs help. Years of deferring large scale maintenance and improvement
Sign Up to Join the Beauty with Impact Working Group!
We’re building a coalition of leaders and advocates dedicated to promoting beauty justice in New Jersey and beyond!
Factsheet - Test and Report Phthalates In Packaged Food Bill (MN SF 188 of 2025)
Plasticizers called phthalates are showing up in the foods we eat — sometimes at very high levels. SF 188 (Gustafson) will encourage companies to reduce phthalate levels in their food products and help consumers avoid food with high levels of harmful plastic chemicals.
Crude Oil Trains in Baltimore: Too Dangerous for the Rails
Big Oil companies’ push to extract and refine more extreme forms of oil has led to unprecedented transport of explosive and climate-polluting crude oil on our nation’s rail lines.
Crude oil train traffic grew 5,100 percent from 2008 to 2014 due to the rapid increase in fracking for oil in the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota and in tar sands oil extraction in Canada. An alarming number of derailments and explosions across North America has followed.
In Maryland, crude oil trains are a danger to communities near rail lines across the state and to Baltimore in particular. The oil industry has
Rally to Reclaim Renewable Energy
Join us for a rally outside the Maryland State House to Reclaim Renewable Energy!
For years, communities on the frontline of trash incinerators have been fighting against the state of Maryland's greenwashing: Maryland designates trash incinerators as "renewable energy" in our Renewable Portfolio Standard, and wastes money subsidizing polluting incinerators that should be supporting real renewable energy.
Every year that Maryland delays fixing this expensive problem, the state is throwing away $24 million subsidizing three incinerators - in Baltimore City, Montgomery County, and Lorton, VA -