Category: Environment
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Act Boldly
The Maryland Department of the Environment is urged to act boldly to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Citizens and groups testified that Maryland should remain as a member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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Healthier Air In Maryland? Testimony by Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility on RGGI at the Maryland Department of the Environment
Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility talks about how air pollution affects patients in Maryland. Whitehouse asked the state to keep reducing air pollution in the state and the region.
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Destiny Watford rejects the planned Energy Answers Incinerator for Curtis Bay
Destiny Watford, Free Your Voice, speaks against a proposed incinerator at Curtis Bay, an area already suffering from air pollution. Watford won an environmental award for her opposition to the plant.
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Burning Questions for MDE and Curtis Bay
Protesters chant “MDE, enforce the law” and “Incinerator must go!” outside of the offices of the Maryland Department of the Environment in Baltimore. The protesters said that Energy Answers had failed to meet the conditions of their permit and that the company should not be allowed to construct an incinerator under an expired permit. Only…