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Comments on Baltimore City's 10-Year Solid Waste Management Plan
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates held a hearing on amendments to the City's 10-Year Solid Waste Management Plan. Read our testimony below!
50 Organizations Call on Governor Hogan to Sign the Transportation Equity Act
On Friday, the Mid-Atlantic Justice Coalition submitted a letter signed by 50 organizations to Governor Hogan, requesting that he sign HB141, the Transportation Equity Act, into law.
The Honorable Larry Hogan Governor of Maryland Maryland State House 100 State Circle Annapolis, MD 21401-1925
May 6, 2022
Dear Governor Hogan,
The undersigned 50 groups ask that you sign HB141, the Transportation Equity Act, into law.
The Transportation Equity Act of 2022 provides enhanced Title-VI-equivalent protections at the state level, its signature strength and innovation. Maryland would take the lead
Clean Water 50 Stories: Vernice Miller-Travis
In honor of Clean Water Action's 50th birthday, we’re sharing our history and stories of the people who have helped us protect clean water along the way through #CleanWater50Stories. We’re thrilled to highlight the story of Vernice Miller-Travis, an environmental justice champion and vice chair of Clean Water Action's board.
Keep Those Antibiotics Effective, Maryland!
In 2017, after years of work in coalition and thousands of grassroots comments from Marylanders like you, Maryland became the second state in the nation to pass a law limiting the use of antibiotics being fed to healthy animals.
This was a critical step in safeguarding medically-important antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is growing worldwide, and some of that resistance is attributed to the widespread use of low-dosage, medically-important antibiotics being fed continuously to healthy farm animals. Many producers have gotten behind no longer feeding their healthy animals antibiotics
The Monocacy River deserves a better Monocacy Plan
For the past two years, Frederick and Carroll Counties have been debating the Monocacy Plan: an advisory document meant to guide both counties on improving the health of their shared Monocacy River. But between 2017 and 2018, drastic changes were made to the Plan that gutted its value for protecting and improving the Monocacy's water quality and environmental health. We're urging the Frederick County Council to reject the 2018 Monocacy Plan - a position the Frederick County Planning Commission just unanimously agreed upon, as well. For more on our position, read our coalition letters to the