Nancy Wallace

Nancy Wallace was born in Long Island, New York. She graduated from Walt Whitman High School and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale University. Her career experience includes lobbying for international environmental issues, founding and leading the International Entanglement Network, working as a director for the Sierra Club, co-founding Sustainable Montgomery, and working as a data coordinator for ecological restoration projects for the Department of Commerce. She also worked for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), and the Department of Treasury. Wallace has served on the board of directors of the Center for Safer Wireless and Silver Spring Time Bank.[1]

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U.S. House

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Campaign website

Wallace’s campaign website stated the following:

Let the Sun shine in!

With a new energy from the strongest source of power we know, the people of this country, let’s shine a light on the wide range of successful policies for tackling our toughest problems to transform our nation to a just, prosperous, sustainable society. Let’s look at the economic strengths of our local communities, the innovations our state legislatures, the wisdom of our traditions, and lessons from other countries. You and I together can implement the wonderful public policy initiatives listed below. Many creative approaches are used today that successfully implement ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence. You just might not have heard about them yet! And the costs are usually less than the failed policies of our current government.

I hope you are as amazed as I have been at these excellent, realistic, proven policy options, and will have your faith in our people and our power restored as mine has been. And, since this massive a change is a two part effort – the “system change” hand in hand with our personal change – you’ll find action links to things you can do yourself at the end of each topic. Let’s go!

“When the people lead, the leaders will follow” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

The two major themes of my campaign are Climate Change and Survival of Women and Girls. These and other key positions are presented below.

Climate Change – implement an emergency economic transformation to renewable energy, including 100% renewable electricity supply by 2020, and all other energy uses by 2030

Women and Girls’ Survival – violence against women in the US and worldwide has reached epidemic proportions, and we must protect the lives of women and girls along with all other victims of our culture of violence

Community Based Economics and Economic Justice – a just, prosperous and sustainable economy begins at home, in our communities with small businesses and green jobs, in a Green New Deal

Health Care for All – Single Payer Health Care and Men’s Contraception – a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system would redirect the administrative waste of private insurance corporations -currently 31 cents of every dollar spent on health care in America today – into real patient care. And men need to be fully empowered to make their own decisions about having a child, with modern, safe, reversible effective contraception[4]

—Nancy Wallace’s campaign website (2024)[5]

U.S. Senate

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Emergency mobilization to reverse cliimate change is the top priority of my campaign. I am inspired by and following the example of Greta Thunberg, and the science of the International Panel on Climate Change. Our campaign is also focusing on the other two emergencies of social justice and children's health. I promote specific programs to achieve our goals, with a forward-looking, positive, unifying and science-based approach.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Emergency mobilization to reverse climate change is the top priority. We can use practical steps that also move us forward on social justice, women's equality, and children's health.Social justice, from increasing home ownership with rent-to-own of all public assisted housing, to eliminating the cash bond exploitation, to student skills training for good-paying union jobs in a local, self-reliant economy will be implemented.The children's health epidemic, with 1 in every 8 children in the US with neuro-developmental disorders, cancer, learning disabilities, and allergies must be addressed. The decades of toxics introduced in our food, air and water since WWII has now come back to haunt us in our children's bodies and brains.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Climate change reversal in all forms - solar panels, super insulation on buildings and homes, 100% recycling, switch to organic agriculture to absorb CO2 and nitrogen out of the atmosphere, replanting sea grass in the Chesapeake Bay to absorb CO2, maximum telework, rebuilding the Baltimore water and sewer syste - every programmatic and policy step to reduce and reverse climate change must be taken as soon as humanly possible. We saw with covid what we can do when we want to, quickly and at large scale. We must do even more, as quickly, against climate change.

In each of these programs, we must prioritize rebalancing society from the extreme wealth and racial divisions of today. For instance, public assisted housing should be super insulated by the government free of charge, which reduces natural gas use and climate change, and also lowers utility bills; and the housing should also become rent-to-own, so the government does not continue as a landlord sucking the little financial income of the poor into state accounts, while the middle and upper classes get the benefit of the mortgage tax deduction.

I prioritize solutions with four "wins", in each of my key areas - climate, social justice, women's equality, and children's health.

Campaign website

Wallace's campaign website stated the following:

Issues: Let the Sun Shine In!

With a new energy from the strongest source of power we know, the people of this country, let’s shine a light on the wide range of successful policies for tackling our toughest problems to transform our nation to a just, prosperous, sustainable society. Let’s look at the economic strengths of our local communities, the innovations our state legislatures, the wisdom of our traditions, and lessons from other countries. You and I together can implement the wonderful public policy initiatives listed below. Many creative approaches are used today that successfully implement ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence. You just might not have heard about them yet! And the costs are usually less than the failed policies of our current government.

I hope you are as amazed as I have been at these excellent, realistic, proven policy options, and will have your faith in our people and our power restored as mine has been. And, since this massive a change is a two part effort – the “system change” hand in hand with our personal change – you’ll find action links to things you can do yourself at the end of each topic. Let’s go!

“When the people lead, the leaders will follow”

– President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Climate Change

Fifteen countries already get 100% of their electricity from renewable sources. (1) Our National Research Council says “…renewable resources available in the United States, taken collectively, can supply significantly greater amounts of electricity than the total current or projected domestic demand.” (2) Germany at times meets 100% of its electricity demand from solar and wind, and Canada is already at 65% renewable energy! So let’s do it!

1. I will declare a state-wide emergency to address climate change.

We need an emergency economic transformation similar to the 18‐month effort in World War II that pivoted our economy to wartime production. But now, we’re switching to renewable energy production!

2. Set a goal of 100% renewable energy by 2028

with interim goals of 10% transformation for each 6 month interval until the end of 2028.

3. Promote the creation of major new solar and wind energy resources.

Most of this renewable transformation will come from wind energy, which is plentiful and for which we have adequate technology right now. We need to ramp up production in the wind turbine factories to rapidly install enough power to meet each interval’s goal of 10% transformation. Installation will create tens of thousands of new jobs. (footnote1 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy (footnote 2) National Research Council (2010). “Electricity from Renewable Resources: Status, Prospects, and Impediments”. National Academies of Science. p. 4.

4. Work with each county to develop a transition plan within one month.

Detailed proposals have already been drawn up for switching to 100% renewable energy for New York, California and Washington states. In 2014, a plan was published to convert all 50 states to 100% renewable energy.(footnote 3) These plans need to be finalized and implemented. So much of this is already done!

5. Create a "Climate Change Corps," modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps

Provide 100% employment at living wages to help ramp up production in factories that manufacture renewable energy products, and plant trees nationwide to absorb carbon. Planting trees in cities has a triple benefit of carbon absorption, lower temperatures in summer, and enhances livability of communities.

Other major benefits to America from a rapid switch to renewable energy:

Air Pollution

Switching to renewable energy would virtually eliminate air pollution thus saving billions in health care costs and tens of thousands of lives.

Increased Food

Stopping urban car pollution would also allow increased urban food production, since urban air would no longer be polluted and cities will be cooler in summer. This local “urban farming” also greatly reduces CO2 production, by reducing energy for food transportation which is one of the largest global warming impacts of our agricultural system.

You see?? We can do this!!!

Resources for You on Climate Change:

Special Maryland program to help you install energy efficiency and solar – a free helping hand all along the way:

http://retrofitbaltimore.civicworks.com/

Make Your Home Energy Efficient

http://www.wikihow.com/Make‐Your‐Home‐Energy‐Efficient

Get started buying an electric car

http://www.which.co.uk/cars/choosing‐a‐car/buying‐a‐car/electric‐car‐guide/

Montgomery County Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

http://mocoalliance.org/newsroom/community‐supported‐agriculture/

Carroll County Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

http://www.buppertsfarmcsa.com/

Harford County Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

http://www.bradsproduce.com/csa

Find a CSA in your area

https://afsic.nal.usda.gov/community‐supported‐agriculture‐3

DC model for urban farming and environmental sustainability

http://www.greenscheme.org/

Footnotes

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy

2 National Research Council (2010). “Electricity from Renewable Resources: Status, Prospects, and Impediments”. National Academies of Science. p. 4.

3 Mark Schwarz (February 26, 2014). “Stanford scientist unveils 50‐state plan to transform U.S. to renewable energy” http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/fifty‐states‐renewables‐022414.html The World Can Transition to 100 Percent Renewable Power, http://thesolutionsproject.org/ 70%, 80%, 99.9%, 100% Renewables — Study Central, http://cleantechnica.com/70‐80‐99‐9‐100‐ renewables‐study‐central/

4 http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html

5 Stephanie Cooke (October 10, 2011). “After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future?”. New York Times.

Antoni Slodkowski (June 15, 2011). “Japan anti‐nuclear protesters rally after quake” . Reuters.

Hiroko Tabuchi (July 13, 2011). “Japan Premier Wants Shift Away From Nuclear Power”. New York Times.

Children’s Health

Breast Milk Emergency – Wallace and Elder Call for 100% Breast Milk Protection in Observance of World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7, 2022

We Declare an Emergency for Clean, Safe Breast Milk in Maryland Based on New EPA PFAS Safety Recommendations

Two Emergency Steps to Protect Breast Milk Will Be Wallace-Elder Program

(1) Emergency Drinking Water Purification Needed Now

Breastfeeding is a crucial start to a healthy life. We support Maryland mothers’ right to clean water and clean food, so their breast milk is safe for nursing babies.

Unfortunately we all consume toxic chemicals in our food, water, and the air we breathe from industrial manufacturing and use. Chemicals such as mercury, PCBs, PFAS and TCE all accumulate in human bodies and they don’t go away. So an American mother’s body becomes a reservoir of environmental toxins.

A study of 45 women in Massachusetts showed that the average concentration of PFOA (arguably the deadliest of all PFAS or “forever chemicals”) was 10,950 over the EPA threshold, while the highest concentration was 40,250 times over the limit.

These toxins pass into breast milk, and then into infants’ fragile, developing brain and other organs. PFAS levels in breast milk have been found 40,000 times over EPA guidelines for drinking water. Yet this is the only liquid that these infants drink.

PFAS and these other toxics have been linked to a host of cancers. In children, PFAS also causes a decrease in infant live birth rates, and development of ADHD and childhood asthma.

We consider the new, stronger EPA health advisory on PFAS “permanent poisons” that was published in June 2022 as establishing clear scientific grounds to declare an emergency in Maryland for breast milk protection. Recent testing has shown 100% of American breast milk has these toxic PFAS. This threat to babies must be addressed immediately, not wait for years for legislation and regulation. Other toxics such as mercury, lead and arsenic are also present in Maryland drinking water and pass into breast milk of nursing mothers.

In the absence of the EPA providing these life-saving regulations, we call on the state of Maryland — and we promise if elected — to regulate all PFAS as a class of hazardous chemicals in food and water, and to require all PFAS compounds to be reduced to levels under the current limits of detection in drinking water, groundwater, and surface water.

If elected, Nancy and Pat will immediately provide reverse osmosis drinking water filters to every house and apartment with a nursing mother on an emergency basis. These “RO filters” will provide clean water for mothers, and also clean water for mixing infant formula. The financial benefit from the improved health of the babies and their families will more than outweigh the cost. These reverse osmosis filters will also create truly clean drinking water for all members of the households, removing nearly all of these toxic chemicals:

Mercury

Lead

Arsenic

Poly and per-fluoroalkyd substances (PFAS)

Pesticides

Heavy Metals

Nitrates

Pharmaceuticals

We also call for these additional measures to evaluate and reduce the known sources of these toxins in Maryland food and water:

1) free, voluntary breast milk testing services to lactating mothers, similar to the emergency free covid testing services

2) an immediate moratorium on spreading sewer sludge containing PFAS on Maryland agricultural fields

3) require removal of PFAS toxics from liquid effluent at wastewater treatment plants before discharge into Maryland rivers and the Chesapeake Bay

4) a halt to the outflow of these carcinogens from Maryland’s industrial and military sites

Scientific Call for Dramatic Reduction in PFAS Exposure

The June 15, 2022 EPA advisory dramatically lowered the recommended drinking water intake of PFAS, by 17,000 percent. But the harm from current levels has been ignored by the Maryland Democratic legislature and Republican governor, which created a law to wait two more years to stop selling new, PFAS-containing products. And that new law does nothing to provide safe, clean water now to our most vulnerable, youngest residents and their mothers. The law also does nothing to clean up existing contamination in the soil and groundwater, or stop PFAS in

sewage treatment outflows.

US Center for Disease Control (CDC) warning to pregnant women on mercury in seafood, also passes through breast milk

Mercury is a second toxic poison that is transmitted through breast milk to babies. Mercury causes harm to developing brains and immune systems. It also crosses the placenta during pregnancy to harm a fetus’ brain development. There is no “safe” limit for mercury intake, yet it is found in our drinking water and seafood. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) already recommends pregnant women restrict their intake of seafood because of mercury levels, but never prints the words “this recommended amount is safe” because no amount is safe. We must prioritize protection of mothers and babies today from mercury which will also occur with these emergency water filters.

We call on the Maryland governor to implement maximum protection immediately, even now during this election season, to protect babies from these dangerous, permanent poisons. Just as we have provided free testing kits for COVID-19 to the entire public, we can provide water filters which eliminate these toxics while additional community testing and regulations are developed.

To protect babies in the future, we also support a building requirement that all new homes must have whole-house reverse osmosis filters. This will allow any purchaser to safely plan their pregnancies or entertain grandchildren knowing that Maryland drinking water will not harm them. Since these “forever chemicals” persist in the groundwater and streams and there is no known way to remove PFAS from our bodies, the only way to protect Marylanders long-term is to ensure filtered water at the least cost, when housing is constructed.

(2) Emergency Testing of Chesapeake Seafood and Public Posting – Nursing Mothers’ Right to Know

Mothers also have a right to know the amount of toxic chemicals in foods which pass through breast milk to babies including PFAS and mercury. Seafood especially accumulates these poisons thousands of times higher than the surrounding water. Maryland needs an immediate, robust food testing program with the results provided on websites for the public. Mothers and children’s doctors can then make their best decisions given the many other benefits of breast feeding.

Sexism in Maryland Democratic and Republican Parties Ignoring Women and Babies’ Health

As a women’s issue, and a children’s issue, we believe that breast milk has not been taken seriously as a political issue in Maryland politics. Pat Elder, our lieutenant governor candidate who is a national expert on PFAS, and governor candidate Nancy Wallace will make this issue a top priority for their administration. All parents and caretakers of children will benefit with a healthy start to our children’s lives. Today’s cancer epidemic in children must stop, and this is one step we can take in Maryland immediately to protect our babies’ health and future.

Babies Can’t Wait – Breast Milk Needs Emergency Protection Now

Breastfeeding babies have an inalienable right to clean breast milk and clean infant formula.

Nursing mothers have a right to clean drinking water without toxic chemicals, without paying extra for expensive purified water. And they have a right to all taxpayer funded studies of food toxics so they can make their best decisions about nursing and diet.

Scientific studies including by the National Academy of Sciences are raising the alarm about these chemicals, and we must follow the science with the best protections for our people and the environment immediately.

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PCB= polychlorinated bipheyls

PFAS = poly and perfluoroalkyd substances, a group of 4,700 industrial chemicals

using fluorine in artificial molecules

TCE = trichloroethylene used in paints and industrial grease removers

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“Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to “forever chemicals” [PFAS], study finds”, August 9, 2022

Community Peace/Stopping Police Violence

We have experienced many deaths and tremendous suffering from our national culture of violence, but none cut so deeply into the heart of our communities as the abuse of physical power by the our own government via the police. The institutions we should trust to protect and help us, instead betray us with suspicion, assumed guilt, fear, and murder. Although many police officers deserve praise for their service, too many we trust to protect and help us instead betray us with hostile suspicion and quick resort to fatal violence.

A long-standing pattern of abuse of the state’s police power for African Americans, particularly men, has become known to all our country. We must act immediately to stop police violence, stop all instances of violence in our culture, and bring peace to our families, streets, and the relationship between communities and law enforcement. Our goal is peace in our communities, with police respecting people in every interaction, each step of their work – and return to their best role, peace keepers.

A. Prevention of Police Violence and Reduction in Community Violence

1. Increased screening and training for local police – use federal and state support to distribute best practices from the most successful, tolerant police forces in the country; the federal government should help local departments help other local departments. Emphasize de-escalation with more training hours than weapons training hours.

2. Eliminate disparity between communities and their police forces – Fund a state survey of racial parity of local police forces to their communities; pro-actively identify areas with significant gaps and then support local recruitment to achieve parity quickly. Set a three-year goal for each state and local force to have 50% of the officers living in the jurisdiction they are policing.

3. Early intervention to identify problem officers – Determine simpler systems for identifying officers with records of unnecessary violence, to improve on the current, complex system that often doesn’t work in time or is too much of a local administrative burden to work effectively.

4. Full funding for social workers – Dramatically increased funding for social workers at the local level; the federal government can help communities by re-programming funds from the federal Department of Energy, as we switch from nuclear power to safe, local renewable electricity. Social workers are our front line to help protect children from abuse, which is a major predictor and cause of adult violence in both police and other adults.

5. Elevate violent offenders to non-violent paths – Promote the successful model of Richmond, California’s “life mapping program” which, under a Green Party mayor Gayle McLaughlin, reduced street murder of all kinds by 83%. This public/private partnership reduced street violence to historic lows. The reduced overall community violence changes the community’s atmosphere for all. http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2014/01/06/richmond-reports-lowest-homicide-total-in-33-years-credits-multipronged-efforts/

6. Provide mental health rapid response to accompany police – Provide 24-hour, on site mental health response individuals to accompany police to any possible mental health-related situation. Trained specialists have precedence in initial assessment of a situation. This will protect the officers, emotionally disturbed individuals, and the community immediately. The program will also pay for itself in the long run with reduced health care and legal costs.

B. Avoidance of Physical Confrontation and Violent Police Response

7. Mental health units have priority – Support establishing Mental Health units in all local social service departments as a professional standard, which police must call for all behavioral and mental health incidents before drawing any weapon. Put emphasis on simple containment of the person using non-violent means, no matter how disruptive temporarily to traffic or neighborhoods, putting the disturbed person’s life ahead of “maintaining order” for its own sake.

8. Raise the standard for “acceptable force” above the legal minimum – Implement the 30 recommendations of the Police Chiefs Research Forum (PERF), a group of police chiefs and commanders. In January 2016 the group issued a 30-point policy paper, among them calling for a redefinition of acceptable force and many other specific, practical means to reduce excessive force. http://samuelwalker.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PERF30Principles.pdf

C. Accountability and Truth

8. Local citizen oversight boards– support implementation of oversight boards in all police departments, with all three components of authority to make independent investigations, review of police department’s investigation, and audit of internal review processes. The federal role should provide program training and measurement systems for local programs.

9. Automatic external investigation of every police killing – a local or state investigation should occur with every police killing, without having to wait for federal intervention which may be delayed or politically influenced. Set a common expectation among police that all taking of life will have this external review.

10. Police body camera footage as public property –set a national standard that this footage is gathered in the course of public service, and is to be made available to the community within a set time period such as seven days of any killing. In this unique case, an officers’ important personal right to privacy is outweighed by the security risk to the public of problem officers, since only the police have the state-granted authority to take life in certain circumstances.

Resources for You on Community Peace/Stopping Police Violence:

Record incidents and preserve evidence –

The Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has an app to help you legally monitor, record, and report police interactions. Download here. The app’s main functions are:

Record button allows you to record exchanges between police officers and themselves or other community members. The audio and video files are automatically sent to the ACLU of Maryland so that evidence can’t be destroyed.

Witness function sends out an alert when police stop someone so that community members can move toward the location and document the interaction.

Report feature gives you the option to complete an incident report and send it directly to the ACLU of Maryland for review. ACLU legal staff will review videos that are sent along with a detailed incident report.

Know Your Rights section – in English and Spanish – provides an overview of your rights when you are stopped by law enforcement officers.

Notification function allows you to get news about action alerts and events on police accountability, to help you get involved in the movement for reform.

Democracy & Governance Reform

Nancy and Pat support Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in the strongest possible terms.

VOTING RIGHTS

Nancy Wallace and Pat Elder strongly believe that all Maryland citizens should be able to vote in state, county and local elections. This fundamental right of a human being to have a voice in their own government is the basic contract by which the government exists in the first place. Incarceration should not waive that right. The viewpoint of people for whom the system is not working, who have been incarcerated, is particularly important in solving our problems. All voices should be included.

This inclusion also serves as a subtle brake on the tendency of governments and elites to

concentrate power to themselves, and to imprison opposition. Since Maryland has the highest rate of incarceration of Black men in the United States, the current prohibition on this voting leaves out major input from people with lived experience on our problems from our public policy decisions.

GOVERNANCE REFORM – BREAK THE PARALYSIS OF MD STATE GOVERNMENT

Nancy Wallace and Pat Elder recommend major reforms to the state government processes

especially the state legislature in order to bring real representative democracy to Maryland. Reform is also needed so the state legislature can quickly address the crises of climate change. Our undemocratic, elitist, current legislative processes have led to Maryland’s public policy paralysis. The well-known rule of thumb is that it takes three years to get even a good, small bill through the Maryland legislature. This delay is now actually dangerous, demoralizing our citizens and stopping critical climate program consideration. We propose a “Green Democracy” package of state government reforms, based on four principles:

1) True Majority Voting (aka Ranked Choice Voting or RCV) –