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Cedar Lake Triathlon Goes Zero Waste

August 7, 2025 | By Kindell Welker

The collaboration between Clean Water Action’s team, the United Church of Chester, and the Cedar Lake Triathlon Series replaced disposable cups and plastic water bottles with reusable cups and silicone water bottles, resulting in a reduction of roughly 200 disposable cups and 20 plastic bottles per race from the trash. Throughout a season, that adds up quickly.

Leave the Leaves, Baltimore City!

November 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

Leave the leaves is a movement that supports letting the fallen leaves stay on the ground in your yard to create an eco-friendly mulch for a healthier environment. Leaves provide many benefits including those for the environment, your health, and your home.

Red and yellow maple leaves covering the entire surface

Making Frederick's compost pilot program permanent!

September 18, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

For the past two years, the City of Frederick has offered free food scrap pickup to City households through Key City Compost, to be composted at Key City's compost facility near Thurmont. Now, the pilot program is coming to an end, and the City of Frederick faces the decision of whether to make it permanent, what the permanent parameters should be, and how it should be paid for.

A Bad Summer To Be In DC

August 30, 2024 | By Troy Wynne

A Summer Reflection as a Clean Water Action Fellow by Troy Wynne.

National Clean Water Action Fellow Troy Wynne

Image of a bunch of trucks in a parking lot by a warehouse - Canva

"They Paved Paradise and Called it a Parking Lot"

July 31, 2024 | By Tirza Wahrman, Esq.

An article written for the Mercer County Bar Association by NJ Board Member Tirza Wahrman and husband Warren Mitlak describes a recent proposed warehouse project in West Windsor, currently stalled in the Appellate Division, and reviews strategies that communities can use to stop irresponsible siting of warehouses.