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Support the 2026 CHERISH Our Communities Act - Maryland League of Conservation Voters

The #CHERISH Act reflects the voices of communities living with pollution and draws on successful models from other states.

Take Action today and tell your legislators to support the #CHERISH Act SB781/HB1268 and SB780HB1287!

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Non-disposable wipes cause another sewage spill into the Potomac After the sewage spill in the Potomac River a few weeks ago, DC Water began pumping the contaminated water and diverting it to the C&O Canal, but on Sunday, another spill released 600,000 more gallons...

There's no such thing as flushable wipes! 📣📣📣
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Support the MD Bottle Bill! Maryland has an incredible opportunity to pass the Maryland Bottle Bill to reduce litter, increase recycling, and save taxpayer dollars - send a message to your legislators and Governor Moore!

#Maryland needs a Bottle Bill!

Tell your legislators we want a #Sustainable economy, where bottles don’t become #Trash 🛑but rather, they become #Resources 👍:
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For safer septic systems, MD needs inspections! Email your representatives!

We just finished testifying in the Senate for #SaferSeptics - and tomorrow, we'll be back in the House! #mdga26

Tell your representatives to pass this bill to find & fix failing septic systems.

Protect our local streams & drinking water from untreated human waste! #ProtectCleanWater

❗Over 300 state legislators - including @behler-dylan.bsky.social, @dellfoley.bsky.social, & @sheilaruth.com in MD - are pushing back against chemical industry efforts to weaken #TSCA.

The message to Congress: stand with communities, not polluters.

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Join us on Thursday, Jan 29th at 6pm: ZOOM: cleanwater.org/mn-democracy-training #engage #democracy #useyourvoice #cleanwater

NOW VIRTUAL!

Join us Wednesday evening for the 2026 Maryland Environmental Legislative Summit to hear about the environmental community's top priorities for #mdga26 - including the #CherishOurCommunities Act and the #MDBottleBill!

RSVP here for the zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Every year in MD 4 billion+ bottles & cans are tossed, piling up in landfills, spewing toxins in incinerators, or polluting our waterways

Tell your legislators to pass The Bottle Bill to dramatically increase recycling rates and decrease litter and pollution!

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Clean Water harnesses grassroots power by engaging and mobilizing supporters to become Clean Water Voters by participating in local, state, and national elections and by taking action to protect voting rights and our democracy. What this means in practice involves voting rights, election outreach, legislative advocacy, environmental justice, participating in coalitions, labor unions, and other direct actions.

At Clean Water Action, we firmly believe democracy work, access to clean water, and supporting the human rights of our neighbors are completely interconnected. We cannot accomplish one without the others.

Support the CHERISH Our Communities Act Now more than ever, communities in Maryland that have been overburdened by pollution for too long need and deserve state-level protections. Tell your legislators and Governor Moore to pass the CHERISH...

Maryland can't keep sacrificing communities with more and more pollution. We need to pass the #CherishOurCommunities Act! #mdga26

Take action today - contact your representatives here. cleanwater.org/actions/supp...

Perryman's years-long fight against development now turns to a proposed power plant - Maryland Matters Residents of Perryman, in Harford County, had already mobilized to fight the growing number of warehouses and truck traffic in their neighborhood now face the challenge of a proposed new natural gas-f...

“In the upper end of the county, which they would consider to be God’s country, if they don’t want something … they’ll just shove it down into my district. And I don’t think that that’s right for my constituents.”

Del. Andre Johnson on a proposed new gas plant:
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Dr. King as a Blueprint for Activist Ethnography As a burgeoning anthropologist, I have had to come to terms many times over with the history of the discipline. The use of words like “primitive” or “exotic” used to describe what we see as the “other...

"This quote, among others, highlights Dr. King’s lived understanding that “wait and see” almost never works. It requires bravery, conviction, and sacrifice to create meaningful change."

Read more from Janée Kelly, our Organizational Culture Director: cleanwater.org/2026/01/14/d...

Another 16-year delay to end sewage overflows in Baltimore? Advocacy group says enough is enough | Baltimore Brew The Scott administration says it needs until 2046 to make improvements first ordered in 2002. “Meet the consent decree, don’t just move the goalposts,” Blue Water Baltimore retorts.

Another 16-year delay to end sewage overflows in Baltimore? Enough is enough, say @bluewaterbaltimore.bsky.social and other groups tinyurl.com/bdv3a9xp The @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration says it needs until 2046 to complete repairs first ordered in 2002 #ConsentDecreeMtgHappeningTonight

Today marks the start of MD's 90-day legislative session. #mdga26

We're working for #EnvironmentalJustice, #ZeroWaste, #SaferSeptics, & #PFAS protections!

Learn more about our top priorities & take action: cleanwater.org/2026/01/14/o...

Support the CHERISH Our Communities Act Now more than ever, communities in Maryland that have been overburdened by pollution for too long need and deserve state-level protections. Tell your legislators and Governor Moore to pass the CHERISH...

Tell your legislators and Governor Moore to pass the CHERISH Our Communities Act in 2026!

‘Pollution is Killing Us’
‘Our Pain = Their Profit’
cc @senbillferg.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social

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For safer septic systems, MD needs inspections! Email your representatives!

Septic systems are a critical piece of wastewater infrastructure, but problems that risk drinking water safety can go unnoticed because septic systems are underground.

Tell your legislators: we need inspections! #mdga26 #SaferSeptics #ProtectCleanWater
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Christmas tree recycling: When and how around Maryland Here’s how to dispose of your Christmas tree in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Howard County, Anne Arundel County and across the state.

If you have a Christmas tree in your home, when it's time for it to come down, be sure to #recycle. Don't let your tree turn into greenhouse gasses in the landfill or incinerator! #ZeroWaste

Here's where & how to recycle your Christmas tree across central MD:

Waste incinerator emitted an excess of toxic pollutants, test shows Testing showed Montgomery County’s waste incinerator was releasing an average of about 83% more dioxins and furans than is allowed under state law.

Montgomery County’s trash incinerator was polluting almost 2x as much dioxins as their permit allowed - which can cause reproductive & developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones, & cause cancer.

It's time to shut it down! #ZeroWaste

Donate to Clean Water Action Support efforts to ensure water that is fishable, swimmable and drinkable for all people in all communities.

Our Protect What You Love campaign starts now. 💧

The Clean Water Act is under attack, and we’re fighting back.

Help us reach 5,000 gifts by Dec 31 to protect communities + waterways.

👉 Donate today to help us #ProtectCleanWater in the Chesapeake region: support.cleanwater.org/page/161944/...

Now more than ever, communities bearing the burden of pollution need & deserve state-level #EnvironmentalJustice protections.

Tell your legislators and Governor Moore to pass the CHERISH Our Communities Act in #mdga26!
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Make a Donation to Clean Water for #GivingTuesday! Giving Tuesday is December 2. Your generous donation gets us one step closer to our goal of water that is fishable, swimmable and drinkable for all people in all communities. Let’s keep winning for o...

Polluters think that if they control the rules, they control the outcome, and they’re counting on us to be silent. Not in the past. Not now. Not in the future. Help us reach 1,000 people defending clean water today.

cleanwater.org/giving-tuesday-2025 #ProtectCleanWater

Public comments on Baltimore City's latest sewer consent decree are due TODAY!

In this plan, DPW is flouting a key consent decree requirement about sewer backups. Submit your comments by the end of the day: cleanwater.org/actions/tell...

Tell Baltimore City: make a plan to eliminate sewage backups! In a plan out for public comment this month, Baltimore City DPW is sidestepping its requirements to analyze and prevent sewage backups into people's homes in Baltimore. Submit your public comment agai...

Just 5 days are left for you to submit a public comment on Baltimore City DPW’s latest plan to implement the sewer consent decree - which ignores a key requirement related to preventing sewer backups.

Comments are due on Monday 12/1, so don’t delay! Click here to submit your comment:

DC Council member’s Anacostia River boat tour highlights importance of ‘bottle bill’ - WTOP News A proposed D.C. bill would create a 10-cent beverage container deposit program aimed at reducing trash and improving water quality.

In DC and MD both - we need a bottle bill!

“For decades, companies have been polluting our communities and have had no responsibility for collecting the containers they’ve been putting out in our community. And now, if this passes, they will have to pay to do that.”
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The #PollutedWaterRule puts EPA on the side of polluters, not the people. It’s a corporate water giveaway that benefits developers and industry at the expense of communities downstream.

EPA is only accepting comments for a limited time. Get your message in TODAY! act.cleanwater.org/page/181693/...

Join us in January for the Maryland Environmental Legislative Summit!

We'll talk about MD's top environmental priorities for #mdga26: the #CHERISHOurCommunities Act, the #MDBottleBill, the Transportation & Climate Alignment Act, and the state budget.

RSVP here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Official Statement on the “Polluted Water Rule”, EPA's Proposed Revision to the Definition of “Waters of the United States” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is once again advancing a proposal to undermine the Clean Water Act. The agency’s new proposal, which clean water advocates are calling the “Polluted Water Rul...

Showing just how relentless polluters & their allies in the current administration have become, EPA is once again undermining the Clean Water Act with a new proposal released today.

We will oppose this reckless action and demonstrate that the public opposes risking our water.

A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News Local communities are hosting events where people can bring in their broken goods for repairs—free of charge.

Each year, billions of tons of discarded products end up in landfills or as litter around the world.

"A culture of care and repair" can keep materials out of the landfill, help curb pollution, and create a more circular economy! #ZeroWaste

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What to do with your Halloween pumpkins? Compost! With autumn in full swing and Halloween behind us, it’s the perfect time to give your pumpkins a second life through pumpkin composting!

Each year, Americans toss more than a BILLION pounds of pumpkins into the trash in the fall.

Compost instead to fight #ClimateChange & create healthy soils!

Here's a quick roundup of pumpkin composting options in MD - including a Great Pumpkin Smash this weekend:
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Emma Weis poses with legislative staff and member letters

A staffer holds up a pile of letters

"What happens to the letters I write when Clean Water canvassers knock on my door?"
We deliver them directly to your elected leaders!
We're fighting for legislation to clean up air pollution. Shout out to Sen Mark's and @jocomerford.bsky.social's enthusiastic staff!
Keep the letters coming!