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Testimony for HB807: Task Force on Recycling Policy and Recycling & Waste Systems
Today, the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee holds its hearing on HB807, legislation to create a task force to study recycling and solid waste policies and systems in Maryland. This task force could significantly help advance zero waste in Maryland; here is our testimony in favor of the bill.
HB807: Task Force on Recycling Policy and Recycling and Waste Systems in Maryland Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs March 31, 2021
Positon: Favorable
Dear Chairman Pinsky and Members of the Committee,
HB807 is a comprehensive view on Maryland’s current
Baltimore City Rolls Out Direct Assistance Program for Sewage Cleanups
New Mayor Hears Residents’ and Advocates’ Call for Improved Sewage Backup Support
Pass the Maryland Essential Workers Act
Clean Water Action, along with a number of other organizations, has joined with Marylanders for Food and Farm Worker Protection in supporting a package of legislation to protect Maryland’s seafood and poultry processing and farm workers from COVID-19. This package includes paid sick leave expansion, personal protective equipment for workers, increased testing, and increased protections for workers to advocate for themselves against dangerous working conditions. Farm workers, and seafood and poultry processing workers have been left out of worker protections in Maryland repeatedly, and though a
Testimony for Railroad Community & Worker Safety
Railroad Company - Movement of Freight - Required Crew Senate Finance Committee March 23, 2021
Dear Chairwoman Kelley and Members of the Committee,
Clean Water Action thanks Delegate Stein for continuing to champion two man crew legislation and supports its passage. We have a keen interest in making sure that trains in Maryland have adequate crew available to not only respond to disasters, but also to prevent them.
April marks the three year anniversary of Baltimore City’s Crude Oil Terminal Prohibition, banning the construction of new and the expansion of existing crude oil terminals in
Stormwater Practices Need Inspection and Maintenance
In November, Jennifer and I had the opportunity to take a storm water tour with Richard Klein, of Community and Environmental Defense Services. In off and on rain, we looked at the health of two different sections of streams and looked at two different storm water facilities.
We first went to a section of the Jones Falls, where it is one of the healthiest and most vibrant sections of stream in Maryland. We looked for macroinvertebrates in order to sample stream health. Macroinvertebrates are organisms without a spine that are big enough to be seen with the naked eye. Specifically, we were