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Support the CHERISH Our Communities Act
Now more than ever, communities in Maryland that have been overburdened by pollution for too long need and deserve state-level protections. Tell your legislators and Governor Moore to pass the CHERISH Our Communities Act in 2026!
Tell Baltimore City: make a plan to eliminate sewage backups!
In a plan out for public comment this month, Baltimore City DPW is sidestepping its requirements to analyze and prevent sewage backups into people's homes in Baltimore. Submit your public comment against this plan today!
What to do with your Halloween pumpkins? Compost!
With autumn in full swing and Halloween behind us, it’s the perfect time to give your pumpkins a second life through pumpkin composting!
Each year, Americans toss more than a billion pounds of pumpkins into the trash, but composting them keeps organic waste out of landfills and incinerators while creating nutrient-rich soil for our communities.
Howard County, MD, makes it easy to take part through the Harvest Heap program:
Drop off pumpkins at Alpha Ridge Landfill or Robinson Nature Center. Howard County residents participating in the Feed the Green Bin food scrap collection program can setBaltimore's 2020 Sewer Update
On Thursday, January 23, Baltimore’s Department of Public Works held a public information session on its tasks and progress on sewers and Baltimore’s sewage consent decree. DPW lawyer Paul DeSantis spoke for the brunt of presentation, and afterwards six stations were also held to elucidate issues in the eye of the public. DeSantis recapped on ideas such as Baltimore’s consent decree, the number of closed and open SSO structures, Phase 1 and Phase 2 goals of Baltimore’s modified consent decree, and the Headworks project.
Some emphasized points included additional flow monitors and rainfall
Subsidizing BRESCO from Baltimore County
On Thursday Feb., 20 and Tuesday Feb., 25, I was able to attend and and testify for introductions of House Bill 438 and Senate Bill 560 into their respective committees (Economic Matters in the House, and Finance for the Senate). Both of these bills would eliminate incineration as a source of energy in the Maryland renewable portfolio standard, therefore taking away the renewable energy subsidies they recieve. If these subsidies were to be taken away, incinerators could feasibly survive, but the subsidization would instead go to more deserving entities. Although this legislation seemed to get