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The 2010 Maryland General Assembly Legislative Session opened January 13th. Over the next three months more than 2000 bills will be considered, including the State's budget. Negotiating a budget is always a big task but it is rarely such a huge challenge.
With your help, the Maryland LCV Education Fund has fought hard to achieve a seat at the table. Now we need to exercise our collective voice and keep the values of a clean, safe and productive environment front and center as legislators make tough decisions. The economy is on all our minds, but we are the ones to remind our legislators that good environmental policy is good economic policy.
Sign up here to receive our Hot List to stay informed throughout the session
During the session we will be fighting for the following priorities:
* Protecting the Green Infrastructure Budget
* Smarter Transportation Choices for Maryland
* Watershed Protection and Restoration Act
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2010 Legislative Environmenal Priorities |
Protecting the Green Infrastructure Budget
This session, Governor Martin O'Malley and the Legislature will spend most of the session grappling with a projected $1-2 billion additional budget cuts. Given this serious economic situation, your voice is vital to ensure the protection of critical environmental programs and agencies that invest in our economy and our environment.
Read more: Protecting the Green Infrastructure Budget
Smarter Transportation Choices for Maryland
Our transportation system is fundamentally broken. Our policies are not in line with our values when we continue to build more roads that add to our greenhouse gases, keep us in our cars and affect our way of life. We need transportation dollars to be spent in ways that create jobs, improve public health and improve the environment. We need a better, safer, cleaner way to get where we need to go.
Read more: Smarter Transportation Choices for Maryland
Watershed Protection and Restoration Act
When it rains, stormwater pollution runs from our parking lots, rooftops, and other hard surfaces, washing out streambeds and choking all life in our waters. The backlog of green infrastructure repairs caused by stormwater runoff exceeds $20 billion statewide. This bill will require counties to implement a stormwater user charge on impervious surfaces. This will create a dedicated revenue stream and hundreds of jobs in Maryland repairing the damage done by runoff from existing properties.
Read more: Watershed Protection and Restoration Act
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2010 Environmental Summit |
16th Annual Environmental Summit
January 26th, 2010
5:00 — 8:00 p.m.
Key Auditorium, St. John’s College, Annapolis
Come to Annapolis and hear from top legislative leaders and advocates about 2010 environmental legislation. Do your part for the environment and our communities!
Join us and lobby for good environmental policy.
For more information or to register visit: www.cbf.org/2010mels or contact Pete Johnson at 410-280-9855.
Please car pool if possible. Park in the Navy Stadium lot and take the shuttle to the State House. St. John’s is one block from the State House on College Avenue
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Maryland League of Conservation Voters Applauds Governor O’Malley and the BPW for Acquiring 1,043 A |
The Maryland League
of Conservation Voters applaud Governor Martin O’Malley and the Board of Public
Works (BPW) on their recent approval of the acquisition of 1,043 acres of pine
forest and tidal marshland in Dorchester
County through Program
Open Space (POS). The total
number of POS acres preserved by
the O’Malley Administration now stands at 25,388.
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