2022 Comprehensive Climate Legislation
Achieving net-zero emissions by 2045 while protecting impacted communities. Download the FACT SHEET here!
Targets
Transportation
- Advance truck electrification (HB829/SB687)
- School bus electrification (HB696/SB948)
- Ensure equity analyses guide public transportation policy by passing the Transportation Equity Act (HB141/SB23)
- Support MTA workers by passing the Zero Emission Bus Transition Act (HB10/SB61)
- Study the creation of a Baltimore Regional Transportation Authority (HB1366)
Electricity
- Invest in an equitable and clean electricity grid by passing the GRID Act (HB88/SB525)
- Connect low- and moderate-income consumers to solar energy by passing tax incentives (HB76/SB264)
Buildings
- Pass a Building Emissions Performance Standard that reduces energy use & transitions large buildings (including schools) to net-zero by 2040 (SB528/HB806)
- Require new construction to be all-electric by 2023 (SB528/HB831)
- Set energy savings goals for low-income households (SB528/HB806)
- Require all new K-12 schools to be net-zero or net-zero ready (SB528)
- Disallow use of state matching funds for the installation of fossil fuel energy systems in new and existing K-12 schools (HB365)
- Require state procurement of concrete to use green concrete (HB806)
- Require 4-year colleges & universities to be carbon neutral by 2035 with interim goals and carbon offsetting restricts and to establish an Environmental & Economic Justice Scholarship Fund (HB729/SB471)
Centering Justice and Equity
Include “Justice 40” language in all allocation of federal & state monies and give a greater voice to the environmental justice community in the implementation of these goals. (HB1033)