Sierra Club believes that everyone deserves access to a transportation system that protects our climate, keeps us healthy, and connects us to the places where we live, work, and play.
Currently, the transportation sector is the largest and fastest-growing source of climate disrupting pollution in Maryland and the United States. In Maryland, the transportation sector-- which includes cars, buses, trucks, planes, trains, ships, and freight—produces approximately 35 percent of all climate damaging pollution in the state.
The chemicals in tailpipe pollution are known to increase the risk of heart attacks and cardiac events, cancer, asthma and other lung diseases, developmental delays, and other chronic health problems.
Our transportation system doesn’t work for everyone. Many Marylanders don’t have reliable transportation to access affordable housing, jobs, food, healthcare, and amenities.
But this doesn’t have to be the case.
Together, we are fighting to:
Reduce pollution from the cars and trucks we drive and the buses our children take to and from school.
Strengthen and expand public transit.
Promote transit oriented and walkable and bikeable communities.
Promote electric cars, trucks and buses powered by renewable energy.
Stop highway expansion because it attracts more drivers which leads to increased climate and health-damaging air pollution, more sprawl, more natural places destroyed, traffic congestion again in a short time, and it takes funding away from clean mobility alternatives.
Join our campaigns to make clean transportation for all a reality in Maryland!
Participate in our monthly Transportation Committee meetings and participate in planning campaign strategy
Organize and participate in townhalls, panel discussions, and webinars
Lobby and contact your elected officials and testify at hearings
Write letters to the editor, op-eds, and blogs
Email transportation@mdsierra.org if you’d like to join the committee.
Statewide Campaigns
Fight for better public transit and pass the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act
Join us to push for actions that will improve public transit across the state and support walkable, bikeable, pedestrian friendly communities. Click here to learn more.
Stop the Toll Lane Expansion of the Capital Beltway (I-495) and I-270
Help us work to halt the proposed toll lane expansion of the Beltway and I-270 and replace it with a more equitable, sustainable solutions for reducing traffic congestion Click here to learn more.
Defend Maryland’s Clean Vehicle Programs
Help us stand up against attempts to rollback Maryland's clean vehicle programs - Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) and Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT). The programs are critical to helping reduce air pollution from our transit sector. Learn more here.
Additional Issues and Local Efforts
Contact Information
Lindsey Mendelson, Senior Clean Transportation Representative, Email: Lindsey.Mendelson@mdsierra.org
Jane Lyons-Raeder, Transportation Chair