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For safer septic systems, MD needs inspections!
Email your representatives! Septic systems are a critical piece of infrastructure that treats the wastewater coming off individual properties, so it is less hazardous to human health and the environment. It is critical that they are functioning, but because they are buried in the yard it is easy for them to silently fail and go unnoticed. Pathogens from septic systems are a problem, and we want to catch them before they pollute surface water and drinking water. An evaluation of data from the CDC’s Waterborne Disease and Outbreak Surveillance System found that septic systems contributed to 67%
Our 2026 Maryland Legislative Priorities
Maryland’s General Assembly begins today, and for the first time since 2018, Clean Water Action is not asking for your help in ending subsidies for burning trash under Maryland’s Renewable Portfolio. Your tireless support over the years made a difference, and the General Assembly ended these subsidies last year. Thank you! We’re working to bring that winning energy into 2026 and secure real progress for clean water, zero waste, and environmental justice. Here are our top priorities for this year’s legislative session, and how you can help! The CHERISH Our Communities Act This landmark bill
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
