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Nominations are now open for the 2012 Tawes Award for a Clean Environment and the James B. Coulter Government Employee Award. Marylanders are encouraged to nominate environmental heroes who have demonstrated outstanding efforts to enhance Maryland’s environment.
The Maryland Department of the Environment partners with the Maryland Petroleum Council and the Department of Natural Resources in support of the Tawes and the James B. Coulter Awards. The deadline for nominations is April 13.
This annual statewide environmental recognition program seeks to involve youth, adults, private and public organizations in the restoration and protection of Maryland's natural resources. Any individual, civic, community or non-profit entity may be nominated.
MDE also co-sponsors the James B. Coulter Government Employee Award. This award recognizes a government employee who goes above and beyond their assigned duties in efforts to improve Maryland's environment.
Past project winners have included community clean-ups, school ecology or beautification projects, recycling, prevention and control of hazardous materials, waste reduction and other innovative environmental enhancements.
The Tawes Award, now celebrating its 35th year of recognizing outstanding efforts to enhance Maryland’s environment, is named after the late Governor J. Millard Tawes (1959-1967), the first secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.
The James B. Coulter Award, which recognizes the environmental contributions of government employees, was created in 2005 and named in honor of a former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, James B. Coulter.
Nominations can be submitted via email to: TAWES.AWARD@maryland.gov or by mail to: Maryland Department of the Environment, Land Management Administration, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 650, Baltimore, Maryland 21230, Attention: Jennifer Hopper - Tawes Award.
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