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Factsheet: HB486/SB125 (Superfund NPL Disclosures)
There are 21 sites in Maryland on the Superfund’s National Priorities List: EPA’s list of the most hazardous contaminated sites in the country identified for long-term study and remediation. Contamination from these sites can travel through the air, water, soil, and groundwater to nearby land, threatening neighbors’ health. Preventative measures, like specific home maintenance, equipment, and changed behaviors, can reduce that risk – but only if neighbors know they need to do it. Right now, when someone is buying a home near a Superfund site, that proximity isn't disclosed to them in the same
Letter to EPA: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper Rule Improvements
Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund emphasize the need to fully replace all lead service lines, service line inventories, and lowering the Action Level for lead in water sampling.
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
Clean Water Action | Clean Water Fund Comments on the Lead and Copper Rule to SAB
May 4, 2020
Dr. Thomas Armitage, Designated Federal Officer (DFO)
EPA Science Advisory Board (1400R)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460
via email: armitage.thomas@epa.gov
Dear Dr. Armitage,
We provide these comments for consideration by the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) in their review of EPA’s National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Revisions. We urge the SAB to consider aspects of the Proposed Revisions where EPA’s proposal missed the mark in terms of achieving significant public health risk reduction
Support the Clean Water for All Act
The Clean Water For All Act recognizes that access to clean water is a fundamental right and necessary to sustain life and economic livelihood.