trash incinceration

UPDATED: 87 Groups Agree: Burning Trash is Not Clean Energy!

January 25, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

87 organizations urge Maryland's Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee to pass the Reclaim Renewable Energy Act (HB166/SB146) to stop wasting Maryland residents’ money and make more funding available for real renewable energy - at no additional cost to the state budget.

Baltimore City Legislative Priorities: Stop Subsidizing Trash Incineration!

November 28, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze

Tonight, the Baltimore City Delegation in Maryland's House of Delegates is hosting its 4th Annual Issues & Priorities Pre-Session Hearing. One of the top items on Baltimore's environmental justice agenda: we need to stop subsidizing trash incineration! Check out our testimony and email your representatives!

Comments on Maryland's Climate Pathway: no to incineration, biogas, & biomass; yes to Zero Waste!

October 17, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze

This fall, the Maryland Department of the Environment is finalizing its Climate Pathway report, outlining a policy pathway for the state to reduce emissions by 60% by 2031 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2045. Read our comments & joint comments signed by 19 organizations below.

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Will Pollution Be A Part Of Maryland's Climate Pathway?

Will Pollution be Part of Maryland's Climate Pathway? Speak out now!

August 15, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze

Maryland has published a draft climate plan - and the solid waste section needs a lot of changes. Here's how you can speak out!

Testimony on MD HB161, the Waste Disposal Authority Sunset Act

February 8, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze

Today Clean Water Action testified on HB161, the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority Sunset Act. This important bill sets up a review by the state Department of Legislative Services to consider whether or how this quasi-state agency, created by the state in 1980 to plan and finance trash incinerators, should continue.

A picture of the BRESCO trash incinerator in Baltimore

Toxic for People & Planet projected on BRESCO by the Backbone Campaign

Testimony for HB11, Maryland's Reclaim Renewable Energy Act

March 4, 2022 | By Jennifer Kunze

Clean Water Action and the Reclaim Renewable Energy Coalition strongly support HB11, the Reclaim Renewable Energy Act, to ensure that Maryland’s public money for renewable energy is going toward truly renewable energy, not sources of energy that emit greenhouse gasses.