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Governor Martin O’Malley has prioritized clean energy policy and aims to reduce Maryland’s energy consumption 15 percent by 2015. In addition, Maryland is a part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities.

With those goals topping the Governor’s agenda, Maryland’s Senate chambers have been a hot spot for progressive policy lately, juggling a handful of issues that will become magnified this summer as we launch into the national debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.

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