It’s clean. It’s renewable. It’s local. And thanks to our steady effort for three years, offshore wind will be powering more of our homes after the passage of landmark legislation. Together, we’ll keep Maryland on the path toward our goal of powering homes with clean, local renewable energy.
Bringing clean, renewable energy to Maryland
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Restoring the Chesapeake Bay
Thanks to you, the Bay could soon be better protected from pollution and development. At the urging of our staff and members, the Obama administration recently moved to restore protections to 17,000 miles of our streams that feed the Chesapeake Bay. Now we need to finish the job.
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An outpouring of support for local farms
We should be doing everything we can to support healthy food and sustainable agriculture. Yet the U.S. House recently voted to eliminate programs that encourage local farming — even as billions are sent to factory farms that foul our air and water. Environment Maryland delivered more than one thousand postcards to Gov. Martin O'Malley this summer in support of programs that would help local, sustainable farmers compete.
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A brighter future for wind and solar
By tapping the energy of the sun hitting the rooftops of America and the power of the wind blowing off our coasts and across the country, we can meet the energy needs of every household in the nation. New policies we helped win will bring us closer to realizing that potential by making it easier to build wind farms on and offshore, and to put solar panels on our roofs.
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Attacks on public health defeated—for now.
The coal lobby and their allies are trying to block the EPA from protecting public health, but we’ve held the line against some of their worst attacks: In March, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill that would have blocked standards for soot, mercury and carbon pollution. In April, the Senate defeated four more bills that would have blocked the EPA from cutting air pollution.
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Alliance Launched To Save Bees
Sixty-five chefs, restaurant owners and other culinary leaders joined us to launch the Bee Friendly Food Alliance. Through the Alliance, chefs and restaurateurs are calling attention to the importance of bees to our food supply, the dramatic die-off of bee populations, and the need to protect our pollinators. LEARN MORE.
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Keystone XL approval is wrong direction
By facilitating the transportation of dirty tar sands fuels, Keystone would add 27.4 million metric tons of global warming pollution to our atmosphere per year. President Trump's executive order advancing the Keystone XL pipeline is definitely a step in the wrong direction. READ MORE.
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VICTORY: ATLANTIC COAST PROTECTED FROM OFFSHORE DRILLING
The Atlantic Coast won a major victory when the Obama administration abandoned its plans to open the southern Atlantic to offshore oil and gas drilling for the first time in decades. Leading up to the announcement, Environment America and colleagues presented Obama officials with letters signed by more than 1,000 East Coast businesses opposed to the drilling proposal.
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You’re building support to save the bees.
Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply. In 2015, we mobilized grassroots support for protecting these vital pollinators. Thanks to your support, our national team and a coalition of beekeepers, farmers and others delivered more than 4 million petitions calling on the Obama administration to declare a ban on neonicotinoids, a class of bee-killing pesticides.
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Reducing global warming pollution
Power plants will emit less of the pollution that threatens our children’s future, thanks to our defense and strengthening of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — Maryland’s cornerstone clean energy and pollution reduction program. Now we’re calling for federal action to limit more carbon pollution from all the nation’s power plants.
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