Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced plans Friday for spending $90 million on reducing carbon pollution in Maryland, using an unexpected pot of money to fight what he called “environmental injustice.”
The largest portion of the money, $50 million, will go toward decarbonizing community buildings like hospitals, multifamily housing and schools, under the plan Moore outlined. The state will devote $23 million to electric-vehicle charging stations in low- and middle-income neighborhoods and $17 million to building up a fleet of electric school buses for public schools.
Moore and several other state officials characterized the $90 million investment as “a downpayment” toward fulfilling the state’s ambitious climate goals — an undertaking that could cost about $10 billion in the next decade, according to estimates in a report issued by the Maryland Department of the Environment at the end of last year.
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