Irvine Nature Center
$5,000 / 2013 / Environment
For general operating support.
Maryland Environmental Trust
$2,000 / 2013 / Environment
Toward support of the 2013 Maryland Land Trust Alliance Conference.
Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
$15,000 / 2013 / Environment
Toward support of the Maryland Climate Coalition’s study of the ratepayer impact of raising Maryland’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to 40% by 2025.
Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)
$150,000 / 2012 / Environment
For continued support of the Brooklyn/Curtis Bay/Hawkins Point Environmental Justice Campaign. EIP will conduct additional research to determine the precise locations of air pollution sources, such as emissions from petroleum storage tanks, ships, and equipment at the Port of Baltimore. EIP will also continue to negotiate permits with Constellation Energy to secure binding terms for the new coal ash landfill in the Curtis Bay area, and work to address heavy diesel traffic pollution infiltrating the neighborhoods.
Maryland Environmental Service
$88,800 / 2012 / Environment
For project management activities to help facilitate the design and construction of a thermophilic anaerobic digester near the Eastern Correctional Institution Cogeneration facility in Somerset County, in an effort to convert excess poultry litter into methane biogas, a form of renewable energy. This facility will provide an alternative use of poultry litter and provide a source of clean, renewable energy “scalable” to the available feedstock.