In the June issue, the Hyattsville Life and Times ran a story on the Climate Change Action Plan and the efforts we undertook to collaborate on the plan and advocate for its adoption.
You can read the story here.
Author: Climate Parents of Prince George's
The Washington Post published a story on the adoption of the PGCPS Climate Change Action Plan. You can read the full story here.
Maryland Sierra Club distributed a press release alerting of the successful adoption of the PGCPS Climate Change Action Plan
On the night of April 28, 2022 the Prince George’s County Board of Education adopted the Climate Change Action Plan that we have been advocating for. It has eight priority recommendations that cover everything we won in the original March 1, 2021 Board of Education Resolution.
We are thrilled with the success of the campaign, especially given the urgent need to act on climate change and reduce the threat to future generations. We could not have done it with out all of of our supporters, especially all of the student advocates that joined us along the way.
Thank You!
The Maryland General Assembly is underway and we have been continuing our work providing support for laws that will lead to greenhouse gas free schools. Of course we do this as part of the Maryland Climate Justice Wing. Here is the second set of the testimony that we have submitted in the 2022 legislative session (the first can be found here and the second can be found here).
- SB0948 – Electric School Bus Pilot Program
- SB0528 – Climate Solutions Now Act (submitted to the House)
- HB1290 – Public School Construction – Funding and Administration (Submitted to the Senate)
- HB0019 – Safe Walk to School Act (Submitted to the Senate)
If you would like to help us review more bills let please consider volunteering.
The Climate Action Plan is coming and in order to get it adopted we will need to let the Prince George’s County Board of Education know we want it. It covers all seven of the areas of concern we wanted to see (education, buildings, electricity, transportation, food, waste, and storm water/land-use) and also strives to ensure equity of outcomes and a dialog with students and other stakeholders.
It is a good plan. And we all need to speak up to say that.
So please sign up to testify. The opportunities to sign up to speak at Board Meetings happen quick so let us know if you can participate and we will let you know when to register. The next meeting we will need you to testify at is on March 24 so please let us know if you can by March 21, 2022.
The Maryland General Assembly is underway and we have been continuing our work providing support for laws that will lead to greenhouse gas free schools. Of course we do this as part of the Maryland Climate Justice Wing. Here is the second set of the testimony that we have submitted in the 2022 legislative session (the first can be found here).
- SB0528 – Climate Solutions Now Act
- Environmental Human Rights Amendment SB0783 | HB0596
- HB0566 – School Construction-Design Documents-Waste
- HB1290 – Public School Construction – Funding and Administration
- HB0806 – High Performance, State, and Local Government Buildings, State Operations, and Eligible Projects
- HB0831 – Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Commercial and Residential Buildings
- SB0588 – High Performance and Green Buildings
If you would like to help us review more bills let please consider volunteering.
The Maryland General Assembly is underway and we have been continuing our work providing support for laws that will lead to greenhouse gas free schools. Of course we do this as part of the Maryland Climate Justice Wing. Here is the first set of the testimony that we have submitted in the 2022 legislative session.
- HB 19 – Safe Walk to School Act
- SB 124 – Grant Program to Reduce and Compost School Waste
- SB 228 – Maryland Corps Revisions
- HB 365 – Green School Construction Act of 2022
- HB 696 – Electric School Bus Pilot Program
If you would like to help us review more bills let please consider volunteering.
We are thankful that we were invited on February 10, 2022 to testify in favor of the Electric School Bus Pilot Program (HB696) sponsored by Delegate David Fraser-Hidalgo (HD-15). If enacted, this legislation would create a program to create a partnership with utilities and schools to offset the higher costs of electric school buses and allow the batteries in the buses to be used on the grid when not needed for getting kids to of from school. Our lead volunteer spoke of the efforts of Prince George’s County Public Schools to plan for electric buses and on the negative health consequences of diesel pollution on children.