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| 2010-09-01 | |
| Today Maryland agencies submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drafts of new plans to restore the Chesapeake Bay. The drafts are publicly available and are part of the bay-wide "pollution budget," a collaborative effort between federal and state partners aimed at cleaning up the bay and its source waters. After an initial review of the documentation, Environment Maryland Policy Advocate Tommy Landers issued this statement. | |
| 2010-08-06 | |
| Twenty-nine groups wrote yesterday to Gov. Martin O’Malley urging him to take advantage of what they’re calling the best opportunity in a generation to restore the Chesapeake Bay. That opportunity is Maryland’s Watershed Implementation Plan, the first draft of which is due to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 1st. | |
| 2010-07-30 | |
| As millions of Americans flock to beaches around the country, Environment America reported that beach closings and advisories due to pollution increased in Virginia, New Jersey, and Minnesota. By region, there were increases of 31% in New England, 43% in the southeastern United States, and in the Mid-Atlantic region the number of advisories and closing increased by 300%, according to the Natural Resource Defense Council’s 20th annual beach water quality report. Environment America called for increased federal funding and strong EPA rules for reducing stormwater pollution. | |
| 2010-07-29 | |
| Environment Maryland released a petition today signed by 55 area farmers and others in the agriculture industry urging Governor O’Malley to require large agribusinesses like Perdue and Tyson to be more responsible for their manure that pollutes the Chesapeake Bay when it is not managed properly. | |
| 2010-07-01 | |
| The discovery of spawning Asian carp in the Wabash River shows the crisis is advancing on multiple fronts and demands aggressive and immediate action to deal with the Asian carp crisis, says a coalition of national and Great Lakes groups. | |
| 2010-06-24 | |
| As Congress is poised, for the first time ever, to consider a package of bills aimed at restoring waterways across the nation, Environment America today released "Our Great Waters" - a report highlighting the value of these waters, challenges they face, and how the legislation would address those challenges. | |
| 2010-06-17 | |
| PennEnvironment applauded the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC), a state regulatory agency, for voting to approve new and much-needed water quality regulations today. | |
| 2010-05-17 | |
| The Environmental Quality Board (EQB), a state regulatory agency, voted today to approve important new PennEnvironment-supported water quality regulations. One regulation would establish new stringent pollution standards to protect Pennsylvania’s streams and rivers from Marcellus Shale gas drilling contamination. The other regulation would establish new rules requiring stream buffers for our most pristine streams, covering about one in five stream miles in the Commonwealth. | |
| 2010-04-23 | |
| Environment New Jersey applauded Governor Christie for his strong stands against off-shore oil drilling and liquefied natural gas ports off the state’s coast today, and called on him to give the same leadership to a renewed state effort to clean up water pollution problems at the Jersey Shore. | |
| 2010-04-21 | |
| Chairman Jim Oberstar (MN – D) introduced the America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act today, a bi-partisan bill that would restore Clean Water Act protections to thousands of streams across the country and the drinking water for millions of Americans. Environment America applauded Chairman Oberstar for his continued leadership on protecting and cleaning America’s waterways. | |
| 2010-03-04 | |
| Today, Senators Carl Levin (MI), George Voinovich (OH) and several other members of Congress announced the introduction of a bipartisan bill to authorize several programs to protect and restore the Great Lakes and provide $650 million annually in funding. The Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010 will fund projects to remove contaminated sediments from the lakes, control invasive species, reduce pollution and restore fish and wildlife habitat. | |
| 2010-02-10 | |
| PennEnvironment, Erie County Environmental Coalition and Gaia Defense League applauded the recent agreement regarding ongoing Clean Water Act violations by the Millcreek Township Sewer Authority and their suit against the facility. | |
| 2010-02-09 | |
| Richmond – Americans use more than 100 billion plastic and paper bags every year, but we recycle less than 5 percent of those bags. Many of these bags end up in landfills, and even worse millions end up floating around our waterways clogging the Chesapeake Bay and the rivers, lakes and streams that feed into it. This morning, a three member subcommittee of the House of Delegates voted against a bill that would have taken steps to reduce waste from these bags in the Commonwealth. | |
| 2010-01-27 | |
| Environment Rhode Island declared a critical victory for Newport beaches today, as the Town of Middletown agreed to take steps to end its illegal sewage and stormwater pollution. These steps were part of a proposed settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by Environment Rhode Island and four local residents to enforce the Clean Water Act. | |
| 2010-01-11 | |
| n what could well be the largest outpouring of public comments on the Chesapeake Bay, Environment Maryland reported that 43,140 bay area residents wrote to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency demanding they take stronger action to protect the bay. | |
| 2009-12-01 | |
| In the face of ongoing environmental damage and public health threats posed by Marcellus Shale drilling, a statewide environmental advocacy group released a new policy blueprint today that will tackle these challenges as drilling continues across the Commonwealth. | |
| 2009-11-09 | |
| “What the bay desperately needs is strong, federal leadership to hold all polluters accountable. What we saw today was the EPA taking a step backward and not reaping the full potential of this new process,” said Tommy Landers, Policy Advocate for Environment Maryland. | |
| 2009-10-21 | |
| Industrial facilities dumped 232 million pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment America: "Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act." The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states. | |
| 2009-10-16 | |
| Americans, we care deeply about clean water. Our rivers, lakes, streams, and bays are at the heart of America’s natural heritage. These are the beaches where our children play, the places where ospreys and eagles make their homes, and the waters we draw upon to drink. And that is why Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972 – to ensure that these waters would be clean for generations to come. | |
| 2009-09-16 | |
| Environment America today released a report on the impacts of an unhealthy Chesapeake Bay for the area's commercial fishing industry. The report comes as Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are considering ways to jumpstart bay restoration efforts. | |
| 2009-09-16 | |
| As the House Natural Resources Committee holds hearings on reforms to the nation’s oil and gas program, more than 160 community and national organizations across the country signed on to a letter of support for passage of legislation that would protect drinking water from the growing impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a process used in most natural gas drilling projects. | |
| 2009-09-10 | |
| The Environmental Protection Agency and six other federal agencies this morning released draft reports outlining a new plan of action to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Environment America applauded this commitment by the Environmental Protection Agency to enhance accountability in Bay restoration. | |
| 2009-09-01 | |
| Environment Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) today presented the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with over 19,000 signatures from Maryland and Virginia residents urging strong federal action to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. This comes one week before the EPA is scheduled to release a new clean-up report called for by President Obama. | |
| 2009-08-11 | |
| On Tuesday, August 11, over four hundred concerned citizens urged a top EPA official to commit to enforceable pollution limits in upcoming Chesapeake Bay clean-up plans. Chuck Fox, Senior Advisor to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, heard from the crowd of Marylanders that it is past time for effective accountability in our restoration efforts and all eyes are on EPA. | |
| 2009-07-15 | |
| Today, the Bend Bulletin of 1913’s dreams are fulfilled. The ink of C.E.S. Wood’s poetry hardens to the page. Governor Tom McCall wins a 36-year battle. And Governor Kulongoski signs a bill. | |
| 2009-07-02 | |
| With central Texas suffering from one of the worst droughts in a century, lake levels at Lake Travis and spring flows at Barton Springs have fallen to alarming levels, causing many Texans to rethink their 4th of July weekend plans. A group of environmental advocates and small business owners called on the Austin City Council to protect Lake Travis and Barton Springs by significantly increasing investments in water conservation. | |
| 2009-06-22 | |
| The highly-controversial-turned-wildly-popular Jordan Lake cleanup bill is now headed to the Governor’s desk. | |
| 2009-06-18 | |
| Environment America praised the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, including Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), for today’s 12-7 vote for passage of the Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787). | |
| 2009-06-17 | |
| Surviving the NC Department of Transportation’s attempts last week to stall it, the Jordan Lake Protection plan won unanimous approval from Senate lawmakers today. | |
| 2009-06-17 | |
| Surviving the NC Department of Transportation’s attempts last week to stall it, the Jordan Lake Protection plan won unanimous approval from Senate lawmakers today. | |
