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Icon OR Report Title Page2Maryland Commission on Climate Change Climate Action Plan
Final Report
Final Report Appendices
Executive Summary
Brief Summary (2 pages)
www.mdclimatechange.us

Member Lists of Maryland Commission on Climate Change:
Maryland Commission on Climate Change Work Groups and Technical Work Groups Members Lists

Executive Orders Issued in South Carolina:
MD Executive Order 2007-07 establishing the MD Climate Change Commission.

See Also:
November 17th: Tom Peterson will present findings from the Southern Governors' Report to the North Carolina Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change.
Presentation on Global Warming Legislation in Maryland: State Action to Complement a Federal Program by Tad Aburn, Air and Radiation Management Adminstration, Maryland Department of the Environment.

Climate News

Obama Gets a Menu of Climate Actions He Can Take Without Congress
President Obama could invoke strong climate policies, like gasoline carbon limits, without congressional input before world leaders convene this fall to negotiate an international global warming treaty, a research group says in a plan provided to the administration.

Whitman & Peterson: Climate Bill Should Top the Congress’ To-Do List
As Congress approaches the August recess, our economy, energy and environmental security needs still top the to-do list of the president and Congress. This summer the Center for Climate Strategies and the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition have outlined how Congress can put a national strategy in place that gets all three on the same page: by passing comprehensive national climate change and energy policy that reflects our best policy options for immediate action.

New Climate and Energy Policies Could Create 2.5 Million Jobs, Hold Down Energy Costs
July 22, 2010 -- New greenhouse gas emissions and energy policies at the Federal level could generate as many as 2.5 million new jobs and $134 billion in economic activity in the U.S. while keeping energy costs down, according to a new report from the Center for Climate Strategies, published with Johns Hopkins University.

Colorado legislature raises state RES, move seen creating jobs
A coalition of stakeholders who worked on the Colorado Climate Panel's were critical to the new legislation’s passage. Since investor-owned utilities supply 60% of Colorado’s electricity, this implements most of the Panel recommendation (adopted by the Governor) on renewable energy standards (RES).
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