Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Maryland's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

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Climate Finance

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SB 137, Zero-Emission Bus Transition Act

Prohibiting, beginning in fiscal year 2023, the Maryland Transit Administration from purchasing buses for the Administration's State transit bus fleet that are not zero-emission buses.

100% Zero-Emission Maryland Transit Administration Bus Procurements

Beginning in fiscal year 2025, a county board of education may not enter into a new contract for the purchase of any school bus that is not a zero–emission vehicle; or the use of any school bus that is not a zero–emission vehicle, unless the school bus has an in–service date of July 1, 2024, or before.

100% zero-emission school bus procurement requirement

HB 908: Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Program and Property Taxes

Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumstances; authorizing a subscription coordinator to act on behalf of a subscriber organization; altering requirements related to the siting and size of certain community solar energy generating systems projects; authorizing the use of consolidated billing for certain charges; etc.

Maryland Commission on Climate Change 2022 Annual Report

The 2022 MCCC annual report presents key, comprehensive recommendations  to guide state agency leaders, elected officials, legislators, and other stakeholders in pursuit of Maryland’s climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2031 and achieving net zero emissions economy wide by 2045 – the most ambitious in the nation. The report provides a roadmap that includes a transition to zero-emissions vehicles, a reduction in vehicle miles traveled, more clean power generation, and increased decarbonization of buildings