Climate Parents of Prince George’s County
Author: Climate Parents of Prince George's
We submitted two sets of comments to the Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee urging them to adopt the County Climate Action Plan. This plan is important for our work since the PGCPS Climate Change Action Plan was developed with this plan as a complement to the one developed by the County Council. You can read our comments here and here.
Its not too late for you to take action too. Voice your support for the County Council to Adopt the Climate Action Plan.
On June 21 we submitted comments on the PGCPS FY 2023 Educational Facilities Master Plan (EFMP). Additionally, several parents testified at a hearing on the EFMP that evening held by PGCPS. We voiced the need for the EFMP to include the Climate Change Action Plan recommendations as part of facilities planning.
You can read our written comments here.
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.
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).
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).
If you would like to help us review more bills let please consider volunteering.