Chesapeake Climate Action Network
$15,000 / 2009 / Environment
To underwrite staffing costs for the Legal Enforcement Project, focused on abating local power plant emissions through legal action against repeated violations of the Maryland Clean Air Act.
Environmental Integrity Project
$35,000 / 2009 / Environment
Toward support of the Maryland Open Government Initiative, a collaborative effort with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. The goal is to encourage state and federal enforcement entities to do a more effective job in ensuring the health and safety of Maryland residents, and to protect them from dangerous levels of air pollution.
Center for Watershed Protection, Inc.
$30,000 / 2008 / Environment
For continued support of collaboration between the Baltimore Harbor Watershed Association, Herring Run Watershed Association, and the Jones Falls Watershed Association. The center provides technical expertise to the local watershed associations with the implementation of water quality improvements, storm water retrofits, detection of illicit discharge, and downspout disconnection demonstration projects.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
$5,000 / 2008 / Environment
For support of the 2009 Environmental Legislative Summit.
The ETV Endowment of South Carolina
$50,000 / 2008 / Environment
For the development of research and supporting materials for the production of a one-hour documentary on the Chesapeake Bay, “Poisoned Waters,” for PBS Frontline to be aired in the spring of 2009. The focus is to inform the public about the relationships among the health of the bay, the local economy, and regional natural resources.