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Speaking up to Support SB548: Stop Subsidizing Trash Incineration
Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee held a public hearing on SB548: legislation to take trash incineration out of Maryland's Renewable Portfolio Standard and stop giving it subsidies intended to support the development of wind, solar, and other renewable forms of energy. With a team of Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County residents, we spoke out about the air quality, health, and climate impacts of trash incineration, and the reality of zero waste alternatives like composting, recycling, and source reduction. We also delivered a letter from 25 Maryland organizations calling on the Senate
Keep Those Antibiotics Effective, Maryland!
In 2017, after years of work in coalition and thousands of grassroots comments from Marylanders like you, Maryland became the second state in the nation to pass a law limiting the use of antibiotics being fed to healthy animals.
This was a critical step in safeguarding medically-important antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is growing worldwide, and some of that resistance is attributed to the widespread use of low-dosage, medically-important antibiotics being fed continuously to healthy farm animals. Many producers have gotten behind no longer feeding their healthy animals antibiotics
The Least EPA Could Do on PFAS
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a plan that summarizes ongoing activity, affirms commitments the agency made in May 2018, and announces several new initiatives. The “PFAS Action Plan” is an exhaustive review of what EPA is doing and commits to some new initiatives.
Given the urgency around PFAS chemicals it is still literally the least EPA can do.
This Action Plan follows up on commitments made in May, including evaluating the need for drinking water limits. EPA is announcing that it will begin the Safe Drinking Water Act process for two chemicals – PFOA and PFOS – and
Greening the Dodge Poetry Festival
Clean Water Action was honored to once again work with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in greening the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark.
How To Pass A Disposable Free Dining Ordinance In Your City
Last week, Berkeley’s City Council unanimously passed a resolution that will drastically reduce the amount of disposable food ware from the city's restaurants. Berkeley’s new Disposable Free Dining ordinance is a game-changing step forward in the global movement to stop plastic pollution from endangering waterways, wildlife, and communities.
This ordinance is comprehensive: it requires that food vendors provide reusable food ware to customers who eat onsite, makes certain single-use disposable items available only by request or at a self-serve station, mandates a $0.25 consumer charge for any