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Clean Water on the Move - Jan 2022
Welcome to Clean Water on the Move, your monthly update from Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund in New Jersey!
Maryland's 2022 Legislative Session
Maryland's legislative session starts this Wednesday! For the following 90 days, we'll be working to get important legislation passed for clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
Septic Systems: Septic systems play an important role in protecting water quality, public health, and home values. Unfortunately, Maryland's approach to regulating them has created a situation where problematic systems fail, fixes are financially out of reach, and consumers (and the environment) are left to suffer the consequences. We are supporting efforts to create a regulatory board to manage licensing
Another year for clean water
If I had to summarize 2021 in one word, I’d use adaptation to describe how our offices across the country and in Maryland took to the hurdles and challenges of the last two years of the pandemic and transformed them into a totally new way of organizing, outreach, and policy change.
Our victories in 2021 hinged on your continued support - whether it was donating financially to fund this important work, taking action through our website or emails, or boosting our reach on social media by liking and sharing posts. [Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!] We simply could not have been as successful
Put a Stop Sign in Front of a Runaway Warehouse Development
Today, the full NJ Senate is expected to vote on Bill S3688 put forward by State Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Salem) that would give neighboring communities and counties an opportunity to become involved in the siting process through updating municipal land use laws. The bill would require notification to communities that would be impacted by the proposed warehouse application, and give county planning boards the power to approve or deny contested applications.
50% Emission Cuts by 2030 is the New Policy; NJ Must Put into Practice
Clean Water Action organizers were on hand to celebrate Governor Murphy’s announcement that he is issuing an Executive Order to reduce New Jersey’s greenhouse gas emissions to 50% of their 2006 levels by the year 2030. The announcement took place with a backdrop of construction vehicles as workers continued to install the nation’s largest solar farm on reclaimed landfill.