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 Campaigns > Local Action > Maryland
Maryland
Dundalk
Nearby residents are getting organized to block a plan to build a new liquid natural gas (LNG) facility in their neighborhood. LNG is compressed so that it can be easily transported, a process that makes it especially flammable. Just two years ago, an LNG explosion in Algeria killed over 100 people. Concerned residents are also trying to prevent the construction of an 87-mile pipeline that would take the LNG from ships docked on the South Baltimore coast to a facility in Eagle, Pennsylvania. CHEJ has begun providing organizing support and has connected them with a group in Fall River, MA who are veterans of the LNG siting issue.
Howard County
Responsible Growth in Our Neighborhood (RGION) is fighting to ensure safe development of an old golf course site where a developer wants to build a housing complex. The group is concerned about the presence of mercury, arsenic, chlordane, DDT, and other hazards from the pesticides used on the grass while the golf course was in operation. Although the developers hired a consultant to test the site, which revealed some contamination, RGION is pushing for more extensive testing. They also have succeeded in introducing a bill in the state legislature that would require testing of old golf courses prior to development and are working to convince their legislators to pass this bill.
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