Environmental Event - 2/23

Join the SGA Sustainability Committee and other UMD students on Monday, February 23, to lobby our state legislators on passing a moratorium on fracking in the state of Maryland.  Serious health risks are associated with fracking, including impaired neurological, respiratory, and developmental systems, as well as birth defects and low birth weight in children.  Fracking also contaminates the air, water, and land--natural resources we depend upon for healthy lives.  Maryland deserves comprehensive research to be conducted on these health threats before we say GO to fracking--join us in lobbying for an 8 year moratorium on fracking, so we don't have put our health at risk for a methane-emitting energy source. 

On Monday February 23 we will leave campus at 3pm to arrive in Annapolis at 4pm and attend a lobbying training with student environmental activists from around the state.  We will lobby our state senators and delegates on environmental issues from 5-7pm, and rally for doubling MD's clean energy from 7-8pm.  We will return to campus around 9pm.  Come join us in protecting Marylanders' public health and the environment!!  If interested,  fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/a/terpmail.umd.edu/forms/d/1vmTQP7Bd6-splUsTJSizMcNFa8HqSpGZyOraXD0_kbo/viewform?c=0&w=1 and Join our FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/761309543976988/ Please email Maya Spaur at mspaur@terpmail.umd.edu  if you have any questions.