Jay Apperson or Adrienne Diaczok
\njay.apperson@maryland.gov
\nadrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov
\n(410) 537-3003<\/p>\n
Nominations being accepted for 40th annual Tawes and Coulter Awards for a Clean Environment<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tawes Award winner\u2019s favorite non-profit group to receive $300 donation in their name; nomination deadline is April 11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n BALTIMORE (Feb. 2, 2017<\/span><\/span>)\u00a0\u2013 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 Tawes Award for a Clean Environment and for the James B. Coulter Government Employee Award.<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0Tawes Award<\/a>\u00a0recognizes individuals, civic, community and non-profit groups that have demonstrated outstanding efforts to enhance Maryland\u2019s environment over a period of time or with a single project. Past project winners have included community cleanups, school ecology or beautification projects and innovative environmental enhancements\u00a0in recycling, prevention and control of hazardous materials,\u00a0waste reduction and other areas. <\/span>There are separate categories for youth and adults. The Maryland Petroleum Council will donate $300 each in the names of the Tawes youth and adult winners to the non-profit group of their choice.<\/p>\n The James B. Coulter Award acknowledges outstanding environmental contributions by a government employee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The deadline for nominations is\u00a0April 11, 2017<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0The nomination form can be completed electronically<\/a> and submitted automatically or downloaded<\/a> from Environment\u2019s website and submitted via email to\u00a0 TAWES.AWARD@maryland.gov<\/a>. \u00a0Hard copies of nominations may also be sent to Maryland Department of the Environment, Office of Communications, 7th Floor, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21230, Attention: \u00a0Adrienne Diaczok \u2013 Tawes Award.<\/span><\/p>\n The awards are sponsored by the Maryland Departments of the Environment, Natural Resources and the Maryland Petroleum Council to recognize youngsters, adults and private and public organizations involved in the restoration and protection of Maryland\u2019s natural resources.<\/span><\/p>\n The Tawes Award is named for\u00a0J. Millard Tawes<\/a>, governor of Maryland from 1959 to 1967. Tawes also was \u00a0the first secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. He is the only Marylander elected to all three statewide offices: comptroller, treasurer and governor. \u00a0The\u00a0James B. Coulter<\/a>\u00a0Award, established in 2005, is named in honor of Maryland\u2019s second Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.<\/span><\/p>\n # # #<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEDIA CONTACTS: Jay Apperson or Adrienne Diaczok jay.apperson@maryland.gov adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov (410) 537-3003 Nominations being accepted for 40th annual Tawes and Coulter Awards for a Clean Environment Tawes Award winner\u2019s favorite non-profit group to receive $300 donation in their name; nomination deadline is April 11 BALTIMORE (Feb. 2, 2017)\u00a0\u2013 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}