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New Jersey Advocates Rally for Clean Trucks, Urge State to Uphold ACT Rule
Celebrating Another Successful Philadelphia Environmental Justice Summit!
Clean Water Action to Honor María Belén Power, Grassroots Leaders, at 2025 Celebration
Testimony on Sewer Backups and the Sewage Onsite Support Program in Baltimore City’s Fiscal Year 2026 Proposed Budget
Last week, the Baltimore City Council held a public hearing on the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 city budget, and next week on Wednesday, the City Council will hold a workshop on the Department of Public Works's budget particularly. After two years of dragging its feet, the Baltimore Department of Public Works is still refusing to implement an EPA/MDE order to expand its assistance program for sewer backups, and a thousand households with sewer backups caused by city infrastructure went without help in 2024 as a result. With a slight budget amendment, the City Council could fund the program in
Baltimore City’s proposed FY26 budget fails to invest in Zero Waste despite significant new solid waste revenue, endangering the City’s Zero Waste commitments
In advance of Taxpayers’ Night, the City Council’s annual public hearing on the proposed City budget, Clean Water Action and the South Baltimore Community Land Trust have released an analysis of the FY26 proposed budget showing that it fails to invest in Zero Waste programming and infrastructure despite significant new revenue and surpluses in solid waste.
In 2024 following the City's publication of the 10-Year Solid Waste Management Plan, the South Baltimore Community Land Trust, represented by the Environmental Integrity Project and Chesapeake Bay Foundation, filed a Civil Rights Act Title