Issue Position: Environment

Issue Position

Climate change is the existential challenge of our time. Economically depressed areas, particularly communities of color, suffer the most from environmental harm, as they often lack the political power necessary to stop environmental degradation. My hometown in Alabama was devastated by pollution after a company used it as a dumping ground for toxins. As Delegate, I will:

Invest in green jobs in sustainable energy, energy efficient retrofitting, and mass transit;
Protect the Chesapeake Bay, as well as our rivers and lakes outside the Bay Watershed;
Promote efforts to shift energy usage to renewable alternatives, leading to both energy efficiency and lower prices for consumers; and
Be Maryland's loudest champion for smarter growth, an end to sprawl, and a reorientation of our transportation priorities from automobiles to transit.

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