Maryland climate bills 2021
Resource - Navigating the MD General Assembly website TOP PRIORITY BILLS SB0414 (HB0583) Climate Solutions NOW : introduced by Sen Pinsky Jan. 13); Senate hearing 1/28 at 11 a.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs); House Hearing 2/11 at 1:30 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) Senate - EHEA - Budget & Taxation House - Environment and Transportation Committee; Economic Matters 1 page Fact Sheet General Two Page Fact Sheet On Climate Solutions Now Fact Sheet on the Difference Between this Year and Last Year Social Media Tool Kit from CCAN MD Matters 1-28-21 Video Action Items:
Transit Safety & Investment Act - SB199/HB114 Sen. McCray and Zucker/ Delegates Lierman Senate - Budget and Taxation - Hearing 1/27 at 1 p.m. House - Appropriations Hearing 2/03 at 1:30 p.m. Sierra Club Petition and SC action alert https://savemdtransit.org/ petition OTHER PRIORITY BILLS Utility Regulation - Consideration of Climate and Labor - SB83/HB298 Sen Kramer/ Del. Charkoudian Senate Finance Hearing Tuesday, 1/26 at 1 p.m. House Economic Matters Hearing Thurs. 1/21 at 1:30 p.m. CCAN group for this bill - Contact anthony@chesapeakeclimate.org Groups sign on here Related bills: Consideration of Climate and Labor - SB83/HB298 Public Utilities – Office of Climate Counsel – Establishment (Climate Counsel Act): HB 30 Hearing 2/04 at 1:30 p.m. Delegate Korman H.B. 768 Community Choice Energy - a MoCo Delegation Bill. HoCoCA supports because if MoCo implements, CCE could become a HoCo option Del Charkoudian Google group CCEforMD Fri noon Contact Lily - lhawkins@fwwatch.org Organizational Sign-on - Individual Sign-on HB 613 : Prince George’s County Local Delegation Bill – Coal– and Gas–Fired Generating Stations – Prohibitions (Prince George’s County Stop Environmentally Unjust Coal and Gas Plants Act of 2021) PG 410–21 Del Ivey - No new coal or gas plants in Prince Goerge’s only. Economic Matters Hearing 2/25 at 1:30 p.m OTHER IMPORTANT BILLS Maryland Energy Administration Study on Geothermal Heating and Cooling Systems and Geothermal Energy Workgroup HB40 Del. Charkoudian Economic Matters: Hearing 1/26 at 1:30 p.m. HB1007/SB810 Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard and Geothermal Heating and Cooling Systems Incentives for Geothermal RPS tier 1 Sponsors Del Charkoudian and Sen. Feldman House Economic Matters Hearing 2/25 at 1:30 p.m. Senate Finance Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m. Sierra Club supports 10 Zero Waste bills: HB 36 Extended Producer Responsibility Del Lierman; hearing 2/09 at 1:30 p.m E&T Plastic Bag Reduction Act SB223/HB314 Sen. Augustine/Del. Lierman Senate: Finance - Hearing 1/28 1 p.m. House: Environment and Transportation Hearing 1/28 1:30 pm Environment – Recycling – Prohibition on the Chemical Conversion of Plastic HB21 Del. Love House Environment & Transportation Hearing 1/29 at 11 a.m. Environment - Single-Use Plastics - Restrictions HB69 Del. Love Hearing E&T 2/17 SB412 Consumer Protection - Right to Repair; hearing 2/3 OTHER BILLS ENERGY - Stop RPS $$ Credits for Dirty Energy HB0332 Renewable Energy Portfolio (RPS) Standard - Eligible Sources No renewable energy subsidies for burning trash! OpEd 2-23 Maryland Matters Del Ivey - House Economic Matters; hearing 2/04 at 1:30 p.m. Action Alert here. Town Hall Sunday 7 p.m. RSVP here. SB0065/HB0875 - Electricity -RPS- Qualifying Biomass - No renewable energy subsidies for black liquor (dirty byproduct of paper industry) Senate Finance hearing was 1/21 Article on Floor vote Speaker Jones Facebook Post 1/29: Today, Chairman Davis introduced HB875 to remove black liquor from MD's Renewable Portfolio Standard. I look forward to voting for this bill on the house floor. Climate change is an existential threat and Dereck’s bill is our first step this session to address it. #Working4MD HB379/SB0462 Public Utilities – Low–Income Housing – Energy Performance Targets Del Charkoudian ; House hearing 2/04 at 1:30 p.m., Economic Matters Senate Finance hearing 2/16 at 1 p.m. Transportation Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Project – Funding SB81/HB414 Del. Davis Appropriations 1/19 Senate Budget &Taxation 1/26 Maryland Transit Administration – Conversion to Zero–Emission Buses (Zero–Emission Bus Transition Act) SB137/HB334 Senate EHEA hearing 1/28 at 11 a.m ; House E&T 2/12 at 1:30 p.m Clean Cars Act of 2021 HB44 Del. Frasier-Hidalgo- E& T 1/28 at 1:30 p.m I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership - Partnership Agreement - Requirements (Maryland Department of Transportation Promises Act of 2021) HB67 E&T Hearing 2/12 Del. Kornan
Energy Environment and Natural Resources – Complaints, Inspections, and Enforcement – Information Maintenance and Reporting SB324/HB0204 Sen. Elfreth Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Hearing 1/21 - E&T 1/27 HB111/ Environmental Justice - At-Risk Communities and Environmental Permits - Requirements Del. Love SB121/HB51 Zoning - Environmental Justice Considerations, re zoning for incinerators Senate hearing 1/21 at 11 a.m. House hearing 1/20 at 1:30 p.m in E&T Urban Ag Grant program HB0269 Del. Wells Hearing Environment & Transportation 1/15 - 11 a.m. MD Stadium Authority applicability of prevailing wage HB0020 Del. Melissa Wells - HB 269 Department of Agriculture - Urban Agriculture Grant Program In the House - E&T Hearing 1/15 at 11 a.m. SB0674/HB1207 Environment - Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities - Reform Senator Elfreth Senate hearing EHEA 2/24 House Hearing E&T 2/26 OTHER: For the longer run: a proposed constitutional amendment…. Constitutional Amendment - Environmental Rights - SB151/HB82 Sen. Patterson/ Delegates W. Fisher, Barron, and Stewart Senate: Judicial Proceedings - hearing 1/26 at 1 p.m. Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs House: Environment and Transportation - hearing 1/20 at 1:30 p.m. Carbon Tax is controversial (because the price is way too low and the time is way too late) with some climate activists Climate Crisis and Education Act SB76/HB33 - (type of carbon tax bill) from Sen. Kramer/Del. Frasier-Hidalgo HB0196 Environment – Oil and Natural Gas Produced by Hydraulic Fracturing – Prohibition on Exportation E&T BILL WITHDRAWN _______ The Transportation Carbon Fund Act - talked about but NOT submitted this year Transportation Carbon Fund bill update from Lindsey Mendelson 1/11/21 to get-maryland-moving@googlegroups.com
Other environmental protection bills: PFAS Protection Act - SB 195/HB22 Sen. Elfreth / Del. Love - Senate EHEA - Hearing 1/28 at 11 a.m. Climate Justice Wing List of all Enviro Bills - enviro bills in a spreadsheet by hearing date https://groups.google.com/g/mlc-climate-justice-wing Email mdlegislativecoalition@gmail.com to become a member and add your voice to the flight for climate justice. CJW List of Environmental Bills MD League of Conservation Voters Legislative Priorities MD League of Conservation Voters Weekly Hotlist Maryland Sunrise Hub supported Legislation here. HoCo Indivisible Enviro Mgts - bi-weekly Mondays at 6:30 starting Jan 3 Contact Richard - rdeutschmann2@gmail.com |
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