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SB330: State-Funded Construction and Major Renovations Projects - Solar Panels - Requirement Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee January 21, 2021 Positon: Favorable Dear Chairman Pinsky and Members of the Committee, As Maryland strives towards clean energy goals, smart solar siting is a critical facet that needs to be addressed. Clean Water Action supports initiatives that remove barriers and incentivize solar siting on impervious surfaces, to increase the state’s capacity to develop solar power capacity while minimizing negative externalities on water quality, local

On this momentous Inauguration Day, I am reflecting on the challenges we’ve faced as well as the positive change we have created together these past four years. Across the country, we banded together, steadfast in our duty to protect our environment in the face of very real threats.

Our job is to make sure, as much as possible, we stay focused on the ultimate goals -- combating climate change, protecting clean water, ending white supremacy and the systematic oppression faced by Black, Indigenous, and other people of color throughout this country, and moving forward toward a brighter future. These campaigns will take longer than two years, but we have to set ourselves on the correct path now.