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The States and the Stimulus: 120-Day Report on Stimulus FundingJune 29th marks the 120-day deadline for states to commit at least 50% of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) $26.6 billion in transportation funds. It is a good time to examine how states are using the money. This report reviews project choices to answer critical questions about states’ accountability to the taxpayers who are providing tens of billions of dollars for new transportation projects. Download the report here.
American Academy of Pediatrics Issues Ground-Breaking Policy StatementToday, the American Academy of Pediatrics adopted a ground-breaking
policy statement on the link between how we build communities and the
health of the children in those communities. Richard Jackson, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences UCLA School of Public Health, says: "It is, to my knowledge, the first time a health organization has made
such an authoritative and direct statement about the healthfulness or
hazards of the design of communities that children grow up in."You can read the full policy statement here.
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| Why have Maryland's smart growth laws failed to stop runaway development? Because they lack clear goals and accountability for how we will grow. |
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| Kelly Carneal, director of Partners for Open Space, a non-profit group, said the Senate's move would leave about thirty million dollars for land preservation over the next two years a fourth of what otherwise would have been available. |
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| We won't have clean water and healthy streams and rivers without a tougher smart growth policy that curbs sprawl in favor of growth in established urban areas. |
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| The Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) presented two awards to individual conservation leaders during the 2009 Maryland Land Trust Alliance Conference at the Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center in Laurel recently. |
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| Better roads and more capacity aren’t the only answer, and Maryland’s state and congressional leaders need to put more emphasis on — and more money toward — building communities and improved transit options going forward. |
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| Maryland was one of 10 states and the District of Columbia that elected to spend 100 percent of the money they put toward road projects on preserving existing infrastructure rather than adding new capacity. |
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Help Protect Our Streams: Learn how to identify and report construction pollution!
Get the Dirt Out Workshops in May and June -- click here for more information
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