What better place than the Henderson-Hopkins School in Baltimore for us to kickoff our statewide climate action? This is where the next generation is already leading.
Governor Moore signed an Executive Order implementing our Climate Pollution Reduction Plan.
The order calls for a new Subcabinet on Climate that I will chair, climate plans from every department of government, and new standards on manufacturers and utilities to meet goals to decarbonize.
The Henderson-Hopkins School is home to the Maryland Community Solar program Solar4Us. It's more proof that the younger generation understands the situation we put them in and the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
As the governor said, these students didn't wait. They acted.
"Together, we are going to pass something off to future generations more beautiful, more cared for, more protected than even the way that we found it," he said. "And it's simply because the students at Henderson Hopkins, that's what they asked us to do."
The executive order also directs the Maryland Department of the Environment to take immediate action on climate change by proposing a zero-emission heating equipment standard regulation and a clean heat standard regulation, in addition to working with Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative states to establish a new regional cap for carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that align with Maryland and partner states’ 100% clean energy goals.
This is about our children and grandchildren. We will get it right.
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