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Tell the Baltimore City Council and Mayor Scott to invest in Zero Waste!

June 4, 2025 | By Jennifer Kunze

For Baltimore City to build an effective and equitable transition away from incinerating our trash by 2030, we need to be investing serious money in Zero Waste infrastructure, now. But Mayor Scott’s proposed budget doesn’t do that - and last week, we learned more. Contact Mayor Scott and your

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What Now For Clean Water Policies?

September 8, 2011 | By Clean Water Action

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Coordinator With health and environmental protections under unprecedented attack, particularly by the leadership of the 112 th Congress, how do we make sure that common sense and long overdue water policy advances don’t get stopped in their tracks? The

Choking on a Bad Smog Decision: first reactions from the frontlines

Posted on September 2, 2011

Here are some of the first reactions from folks on the frontlines here at Clean Water Action when they heard the President’s announcement that pending rules to crack down on health-harming ozone pollution would be shelved indefinitely:

"We were deeply disappointed in the Obama administration's