Learn more about Maryland Climate Partners recommendations to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) for how the state should combat inequalities and meet Maryland’s ambitious pollution reduction mandates, as set out in the Climate Solutions Now Act.

Maryland Climate Partners commends the Maryland Department of the Environment on the recent release of its Maryland’s Climate Pathway report, produced in partnership with the University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability.

Governor Wes Moore signed the Power Act, legislation that will help make Maryland the offshore wind capital of the U.S. The POWER Act sets a goal for the state to quadruple the amount of wind offshore energy produced in the state by 2031.

Maryland Climate Partners submitted its Preliminary Priorities for how to reach Maryland’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2031 and achieving net zero by 2045.

Maryland leaders are making a big commitment to offshore windmills in an effort to reach state goals increasing the use of renewable energy sources and making the state a leader in the wind energy industry.

A decade after Maryland lawmakers first affirmed their support for bringing offshore wind energy to federal waters off the coast of Ocean City, the General Assembly on Monday gave its final approval to a bill designed to expand the state’s offshore wind energy footprint even more.

The Inflation Reduction Act, is a landmark moment in our effort to address climate change and improve American health care.

Leading environmental and climate advocacy groups today congratulated the General Assembly following final enactment of the Climate Solutions Now Act.

The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to a wide-ranging climate bill that would set the state on a path to achieve carbon neutral emissions by 2045.

With the acceleration of our transition to clean energy, the forecast to build capacity in our grid is indisputable.

Whether the coordinated opposition to the building electrification portion of the climate legislation will impede its progress is an open question, when legislative leaders seem committed to passing the measures intact. But utilities and the building industry often hold great sway in Annapolis.

Advocates and lawmakers pushed for a comprehensive climate bill on Tuesday that would take significant steps to reduce emissions from buildings and set the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal at 60% of 2006 levels by 2030.