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Meet Giselle Rodriguez, Our 2026 EarthShare Texas Green Leaders Fellow
We’re excited to have Giselle Rodriguez join us as our EarthShare Texas Green Leaders Fellow. Giselle will be assisting the Texas team in communications efforts, with a focus on creating content for a miniseries explaining the issue of Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS).
Clean Water Waves | In The News, March 2023
Our work to protect clean water across the country often makes the news. Clean Water Waves highlights recent articles featuring our staff speaking on their areas of activism and expertise.
Our Clean Water Priorities for the 2023 Texas Legislative Session
For roughly five months in odd-numbered years, elected officials and advocates across Texas are busy at work passing legislation through the House and Senate and to the Governor's desk. Here are the top efforts and issues that Clean Water Action is prioritizing during the current Texas legislative session that ends on May 29th - and how you can take action.
“No Bomb Trains in Baltimore” Coalition Statement on Falls Road Train Derailment
On Friday afternoon, a freight train derailed over the 1900 block of Falls Road. Media outlets are reporting that at least five train cars fell at least two stories onto the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Falls Road, and surrounding green space. Fortunately, no leaks, spills, or injuries have been reported. But this is only a matter of luck, as trains carrying hazardous materials travel through Baltimore routinely. In April 2018, Baltimore City passed the Crude Oil Terminal Prohibition, banning the construction of new and the expansion of existing crude oil terminals in Baltimore. This was the
An Improved Howard Street Tunnel Should Serve Us All
The Sun was right to call for greater public transparency about rail traffic through the Howard Street Tunnel, as the public is poised to provide even larger subsidies to renovate it (“ CSX back on track,” December 17, 2018). Our region’s railroads are critical to the health, safety, and economic development of Baltimore: a huge volume of commodities travel quickly and efficiently by rail, but bottlenecks like the Howard Street Tunnel restrict that flow. And, more importantly to Baltimore’s neighborhoods, aging infrastructure can create the risk of derailment. Already in Baltimore, we’ve seen
