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New Jersey Currents | Fall 2018
In this issue: Electing Pro-Environmental Candidates to Congress in New Jersey | The Fight Continues for Economic, Social and Environmental Justice | ReThink Disposable in the Garden State | Autumn Toast: Celebrate Fall at Clean Water Action’s 9th Annual Charity Auction
New Jersey Currents - Summer 2018
In This Issue: Trenton Roundup: Nuke Bailout, DuPont Toxic Waste, Fracking and Plastic Bag Bans | Farewell, Poseidon | Helping Elect Pro-Environment Candidates to Congress | Upcoming Clean Water Action Events | No More Plastic Straws | Environmental Justice Updates from Newark to the Statehouse
Crude Oil Trains in Baltimore: Too Dangerous for the Rails
Big Oil companies’ push to extract and refine more extreme forms of oil has led to unprecedented transport of explosive and climate-polluting crude oil on our nation’s rail lines. Crude oil train traffic grew 5,100 percent from 2008 to 2014 due to the rapid increase in fracking for oil in the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota and in tar sands oil extraction in Canada. An alarming number of derailments and explosions across North America has followed. In Maryland, crude oil trains are a danger to communities near rail lines across the state and to Baltimore in particular. The oil industry has
New Jersey Currents - Fall 2017
Check out New Jersey Currents - Clean Water Action's Fall Newsletter 2017!
Chesapeake Currents | Summer 2017 | DC Edition
In This Issue: District of Columbia: Budget Victory | Virginia: 2017 Legislative Victory | Maryland: The People's Climate March in Baltimore | Maryland: Offshore Wind is Coming to Maryland!