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Bipartisan Coalition Demands End to Ratepayer Subsidies for Trash Incineration
On March 8th, an unlikely alliance of Republican and Democratic legislators, residents from across Maryland, and environmental advocates gathered to demand the end of public subsidies for trash incineration in the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard.
Surrounded by a trash can filled with mock flaming cash and a hand-made replica of the BRESCO incinerator, the coalition called for the passage of legislation that will end incineration subsidies (HB961/SB548) before a key committee hearing. The legislation, sponsored by Republican Senator Mike Hough from Frederick and Carroll Counties and
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
Controversial Pinelands Coal Plant To Shut Down Not Convert
Clean Water Action sang the praises of today's overnight news that the owner of the BL England (aka Beasley Point) power plant in Ocean City has decided to retire it instead of continuing with a controversial plan to try and convert if from dirty coal to equally problematic frack gas power.
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
Pursuing Environmental Justice In Kern County
Clean Water Action has been working with communities in Kern County since 2014 to bring resources and attention to the needs of local residents in order to advocate for community health protections and improved regulations on the oil and gas industry.