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Testimony on Baltimore City's 2025 Budget

May 16, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

Tonight is Taxpayers' Night, the annual City Council hearing on Baltimore City's budget. Read our testimony on Zero Waste, trash incineration and sewage backups below! And stay tuned for the Department of Public Works budget hearing on June 3.

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Dear Baltimore City Council

A Tale of Two Washingtons

March 29, 2012 | By Clean Water Action

Can't we end the subsidies?

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Shortly before the U.S. Senate failed to overturn Big Oil subsidies, President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden about the need to set our sights on a clean energy future and to stop handing billions of dollars a year to oil

Getting Serious about Clean Air

March 27, 2012 | By Clean Water Action

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director

Closer to cleaning our air up

EPA's proposal for controlling industrial carbon pollution from new and modified power plants is a welcome step forward. The Administration is taking common sense steps to protect from climate change and air pollution and to

Storm Water Success!

March 23, 2012 | By Clean Water Action

By Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director

Protecting the Bay

On Friday afternoon, the Maryland House of Delegates passed House Bill (HB) 987 on a 90-48 vote. This is a great step forward for the campaign to reduce pollution from storm water – the runoff from urban and suburban streets and

The Kids are Alright

March 22, 2012 | By Clean Water Action

"Keep Our Water Safe"

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director While the letters our members write to President Obama encouraging him to keep clean water progress moving are great, the pictures their children draw are even better. Water issues are big and complex, and World Water Day is a good

Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers?

March 19, 2012 | By Clean Water Action

The Colorado River

By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director Originally posted at Huffington Post Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado's Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat