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Testimony on the Baltimore City Budget

On June 8, 2021, the Baltimore City Council voted to adopt the City's Fiscal Year 2022 budget without introducing any amendments. Our budgets reflect our values, and we're paying close attention to how the city's spending is prioritizing - or not - sewage infrastructure, especially protecting people from sewage backing up into their homes. Read our comments ot the City Council below, and our comments to the Board of Estimates here.

City Budget FY22: Public Comment for Taxpayers’ Night Baltimore City Council June 7, 2021

Dear Councilmembers,

Clean Water Action is a national environmental

Testimony Opposing "Chemical Recycling" A5803

Statement by Maura Toomey, Zero Waste Organizer for Clean Water Action before the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee Opposing A5803

June 14, 2021

Thank you for the opportunity to testify on this bill. Clean Water Action strongly opposes A5803, which would exempt plastic material processed at advanced plastic processing facilities from solid waste and recycling regulations, and urges the bill’s sponsor Assemblyman McKeon to pull this bill.

This is an attempt to create a market for “advanced recycling”, also known as “chemical recycling”, gasification, or pyrolysis. These terms

Great Lakes Day in Washington DC: Protecting and Restoring the Lakes to Provide Access to Drinking Water, Recreation, and Democracy

For decades, Clean Water Action has led the fight to protect and restore Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Why? Because the Great Lakes contain 21% of the Earth’s available fresh surface water. They are the drinking water source for more than 40 million people. Tourism to the Lakes brings in more than 16 billion dollars each year to local economies. And a less quantifiable reason: they are fun and enjoyable!

But the Great Lakes face serious and urgent threats: permitted pollution from industry, toxic water running off farm fields and over non-porous pavement, invasive species, unchecked

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

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