For this petition to continue to have an impact we must convince elected officials by flooding them with letters of support from individuals and citizen groups outside of the Waterkeepers. This is where we need your help.
If you agree with the assertions in the petition, we need you to communicate that to Governor O'Malley, Lisa Jackson(Administrator of EPA), Shawn Garvin (Regional EPA Administrator for Region III), U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, your U.S. House of Representatives, and your Maryland House of Delegates and Senate representatives.
You may write your own comments to submit, or you can use our sample letters for inspiration - click here.
Below you will find specific instructions for mailing and emailing your letters of support to these political figures.
For Governor Martin O'Malley:
To mail your letter to Governor O'Malley, please send it to him at the
following address:
100 State Circle
Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1925
If you prefer to email Governor O'Malley, please go to this link, enter your contact information, and copy and paste your letter or comments in the "message" field. You can select"environment issues" for the correspondence topic. When you are ready to send, click "Submit":
For EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson:
To mail your letter to Administrator Jackson, please send it to her at
the following address:
USEPA Headquarters
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Mail Code: 1101A
Washington, DC 20460
If you prefer to email Administrator Jackson, please email her here.
For EPA Region III Administrator Shawn Garvin:
To mail your letter to Regional Administrator Garvin, please send it to him at the following address:
US EPA REGION 3
1650 Arch Street
Mail Code: 3RA00
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029
If you prefer to email Regional Administrator Garvin, please email him here.
For Senator Barbara Mikulski:
To mail your letter to Senator Mikulski, please send it to her at the
following address:
503 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
If you prefer to email Senator Mikulski, please go to the following link, enter your contact information, and copy and paste the email body in the comments field. When you are ready to send, click"Submit":
For Senator Ben Cardin:
To mail your letter to Senator Cardin, please send it to him at the
following address:
509Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
If you prefer to email Senator Cardin, please go to the following link,
enter your contact information and copy and paste the email body into the"comments" field. You can select"environment" for your comment topic. When you are ready to send, click "Submit Comments":
For your U.S. Congressional representative and you Maryland Senate and House of Delegates representatives:
Please go to the following link, enter your address and city(under the map) and click "find elected officials."
http://mdelect.net/electedofficials/
Your elected officials will appear along the left hand side of the screen in the white pane. There should be two under"delegates" (MD House of Delegates reps), one under"Senator" (MD Senate rep) and one under "U.S. Congressional District Representative" (US House rep). You can click on each representative's name and it will bring you to a window that provides their email address and mailing address.
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