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Environmental Community Letter in Support of S1, the For the People Act
Clean Air Moms Action ✶ Clean Water Action ✶ Defend Our Future ✶ Earthjustice ✶ EDF Action ✶ Greenpeace ✶ Interfaith Power & Light ✶ League of Conservation Voters ✶ National Wildlife Federation ✶ Natural Resources Defense Council ✶ Sierra Club ✶ The Wilderness Society
March 24, 2021
On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we urge the Senate to pass the For the People Act (S1). This historic act would expand and protect the public’s access to fair elections and rein in the destructive influence money plays in political decision-making. This bill ensures that our democracy works for
Baltimore City Rolls Out Direct Assistance Program for Sewage Cleanups
New Mayor Hears Residents’ and Advocates’ Call for Improved Sewage Backup Support
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
Testimony for Railroad Community & Worker Safety
Railroad Company - Movement of Freight - Required Crew Senate Finance Committee March 23, 2021
Dear Chairwoman Kelley and Members of the Committee,
Clean Water Action thanks Delegate Stein for continuing to champion two man crew legislation and supports its passage. We have a keen interest in making sure that trains in Maryland have adequate crew available to not only respond to disasters, but also to prevent them.
April marks the three year anniversary of Baltimore City’s Crude Oil Terminal Prohibition, banning the construction of new and the expansion of existing crude oil terminals in