Maryland drives a hard target

Found it interesting that Maryland is proposing to push some hard carbon cut goals.  Hard to meet, definitely, especially with no extra nuclear capacity.  But maybe the difficulty of reaching these goals will spur some nuclear investment.

Deeper climate pollution cuts urged for Maryland  (Baltimore Sun)

"It's pretty extraordinary in this day and age to see a bipartisan commission — [including one] representing the highest levels of a Republican administration — voting for such cutting-edge reductions of greenhouse gas emissions," said Mike Tidwell, executive director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

Only California and New York have set more ambitious targets for curbing their states' climate pollution, he said.
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Donald F. Boesch, a panel member, said that if the state can achieve a 40 percent reduction by 2030, it would be roughly on pace to make the even deeper cuts of 70 to 80 percent that climate scientists have said the United States needs to make by 2050 to limit global warming. 

Boesch is president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science."