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25th Annual Fall Celebration Awardee Feature: Saugus Leaders, the Alliance for Health and the Environment
Behold the Saugus Sheroes of the Alliance for Health and the Environment: Ann Devlin, Debra Panetta, Jackie Mercurio!
A Confusing Week for Baltimore's Plastic Bag Ban
On Monday October 7 at 1:00 pm, I attended the Baltimore City Council Judiciary Committee's work session on the Plastic Bag Reduction Bill ( #19-0401). It had to do with redefinition of a banned "plastic checkout bag" from a maximum thickness of 4 mils (thousandths of an inch) to a mazimum thickness of 2.25 mils. This would mean that distribution of plastic bags below 2.25 mils would be disallowed, and distribution of those between 2.25 and 4 mils to customers would be standard. In essence, a slightly thicker bag would be standard to encourage a false spirit of reusability. According to Cailey
Pendley's Anti-Public Lands Agenda: Statement of Brent Bolin, Clean Water Fund political director
Statement of Brent Bolin, Clean Water Fund political director
Note: In what can only be termed “absurd”, the chief Federal official in charge of America’s public lands, William Perry Pendley, today said the biggest threat facing America’s public lands is not climate change, not under-regulated fossil fuel companies pilfering the public estate, not the zeroing out of Land and Water Conservation Fund funding in the President's proposed budget, not the unprecedented rollback of environmental protections for priceless lands and endangered species but instead is...wild horses.
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Ensuring Safety: Nuclear Oversight Board Established in New Jersey
Less than a week after Clean Water Action called for an independent oversight board to scrutinize the decommissioning of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant, the Murphy Administration agreed and signed an executive order for its establishment.
The panel will assist in ensuring safety during the decommissioning process and give the public an avenue for lodging safety and public health concerns.
Oyster Creek permanently shut down in September, 2018 following intense safety scrutiny of its degrading components promoted by Clean Water Action. It sits dormant in Lacey Township in Southern New Jersey
25th Annual Fall Celebration Awardee Feature: Eben Bein and student leaders
We are thrilled to honor Eben Bein and and several student leaders with our Grassroots Climate Leadership Award at our 25 th Annual Fall Celebration!