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The Meat Industry – Environmental Issues & Solutions
There are three big environmental issues with the production of meat - feed sourcing, manure processing, and climate change.
Join the Pollinator Protection Squad!
Three years ago, we were part of a coalition to ban consumer pesticides containing bee-killing neonicotinoids (neonics) in Maryland. This law went into effect on January 1, 2018. Unfortunately, many of our neighborhood stores are illegally selling these products. Store managers may be unaware that they are breaking the law by stocking these products. This is where people like you can help! We need super volunteers to check out their local neighborhood stores and make sure that they are not selling these products. Here's what you can do to help: Visit 5 Neighborhood Stores Check ingredient
Sewage Backups in Baltimore
Heavy rainfall stresses all of our infrastructure: flooded transportation systems, leaking houses developing mold, inundated drinking water sources full of polluted runoff, and sewage systems letting rainwater leak in and sewage flow out.
Our Maryland Priorities
Clean Water Action is a national grassroots organization with 53,000 members in Maryland. We work for clean, safe, and affordable water, whether in the streams, rivers or Chesapeake Bay, or from the tap through grassroots organizing, policy work, and campaigns. Check out our current priority campaigns:
Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC): An Early Warning Sign
People and industry use tens of thousands of chemicals. A vast array of these chemicals have been found in our environment, where we consider them contaminants of emerging concern or CECs. Most of these CECs have not been fully evaluated for the risks they might pose to the environment— or to our health.
