A Blueprint for Action:

Policy Options to Reduce Maryland's Contribution to Global Warming

by Elizabeth Ridlington, Frontier Group; Brad Heavner, Environment Maryland Research & Policy Center

Executive Summary

Global warming poses a serious threat to Maryland’s future. The state has already begun to respond to the problem, but additional action is needed if Maryland is going to do its share to prevent the worst impacts of global warming, like inundation of parts of the Eastern Shore from rising seas. A Blueprint for Action describes nine policy steps that, if taken, would reduce the state’s global warming emissions to 23 percent below 2006 levels by 2020. (June 2007)

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