Maryland Joins Federal Program Pledging To Reduce State Government’s Greenhouse Gases By 50%

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge, pledging to trim greenhouse state emissions from authorities authorities operations by astatine slightest 50% wrong 10 years, Gov. Larry Hogan said.

The authorities is already portion of the Department of Energy’s Better Building Challenge, Hogan’s bureau said. As portion of that program, the Maryland Department of General Services reduced vigor depletion successful authorities authorities buildings by 20% betwixt 2008 and 2015, according to the federal agency.

“Our medication continues to acceptable an illustration by identifying vigor ratio opportunities to trim greenhouse state emissions from our authorities buildings,” said Hogan. “Maryland has 1 of the nation’s astir comprehensive, detailed, and balanced plans to code and mitigate clime change, and this concern lone strengthens our efforts.”

In 2019, Hogan signed an enforcement bid to trim emissions from each state-owned buildings and marque them much vigor efficient. The state’s gathering portfolio has 90.7 cardinal quadrate feet, which includes the University System of Maryland campuses.

Department of General Services Secretary Ellington E. Churchill Jr. said his agency’s Office of Energy and Sustainability volition acquisition instrumentality and commodities and trim vigor depletion successful a mode that “minimizes costs, enhances sustainability, and achieves the state’s clime goals.”

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With thousands of miles of shoreline and galore low-lying areas, Maryland is susceptible to the effects of clime change, the Department of Energy said.