Nearly all Maryland elected officials pronounce the urgency of acting on climate change and cutting global warming emissions. There are outliers or rather out-and-out-liars still denying global warming or human influence causing it.
One popular strategy employed by elected officials is to set goals for huge reductions in carbon emissions with future dates for carbon-free electrical generation and motor vehicle transportation. The goals are well past lawmakers’ current terms and sometimes beyond their current life expectancies. The hypocrisy is rife as local elected officials are blocking the installation of ground-based solar panels necessary to achieve emission reductions.
The Maryland legislature has enacted some of the most stringent goals to reduce and eventually eliminate carbon emissions. The Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 mandated that the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) develop a strategy by the end of…
