Our fund raising efforts are faltering. We still need to raise more money for the Sierra Club/Environmental defense lawsuit against the ICC. We need funds to pay for expert attorneys and witnesses.

Our goal is $15,000. We have raised $9,700. This includes $3,000 from the Sierra Club and $1,000 from the Gayfields Home Owners Association.

We have received several reviews from knowledgeable people that our lawsuit is very strong and we luckily drew a progressive judge for our hearing.

One idea inspired by the donation of $1,000 from the Gayfields Home Owners Association is to ask other home owner associations along the route of the proposed ICC for funds. These associations often have funds that slowly built up over years.

So, please send this email on to your lists and also tell me how and who to contact in your home owner’s association (or other organization) that might donate to funding the lawsuit.

I have donated the $75 paid to me by the Washington Post for the OP/ED article along with $250 of personal funds. My daughter donated money so that my grandsons (and yours) will have clean air and water and green space and forests to keep us all healthy. Really, the proposed ICC is the most expensive sprawl producing, pollution generating project in the history of Maryland.

Donations are tax deductible. Make checks payable to the Sierra Foundation- Maryland Chapter and write "ICC lawsuit" in note on bottom left corner of check. Mail to: Betsy Johnson, 4413 Ridge St, Chevy Chase, MD 20815

The proposed ICC is not a "done deal."

Regards, Jim Fary, Chair, Conservation Committee, Montgomery Group of the Sierra Club