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Senators see Inflation Reduction Act as inflection point for combating climate change in Md. – Maryland Matters
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Maryland’s U.S. senators, Ben Cardin (D) and Chris Van Hollen (D), hailed sweeping new federal laws that can be heading quickly to President Biden’s desk, and stated it can have a significant affect on combating local weather change within the state.
Cardin and Van Hollen stated Wednesday that the Inflation Discount Act, which handed alongside celebration strains within the Senate on Sunday, will provide protections for the Chesapeake Bay, incentives to householders to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions of their properties, make more cash accessible for clear vitality manufacturing, present further funding for conservation and local weather resiliency packages, and increase environmental justice initiatives.
“It’s an unimaginable invoice,” Cardin instructed reporters on a Zoom name.
The measure is headed for a vote within the Home of Representatives on Friday, the place it’s anticipated to go narrowly, probably additionally alongside celebration strains. Biden would seemingly signal the invoice subsequent week.
Cardin and Van Hollen spoke confidently concerning the invoice’s passage — and predicted its affect can be felt pretty rapidly within the state.
“Lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in these packages will now stream into Maryland, they usually’ll each defend the Bay and assist scale back greenhouse fuel emissions,” Van Hollen stated on the Zoom name.
Whereas the total scope of the funding for Maryland companies and initiatives isn’t but clear, about $369 billion of the $700 billion legislative bundle are anticipated to broadly deal with local weather change, and invoice supporters say the local weather measures may scale back U.S. carbon emissions by nearly 40% by 2030.
Joel Dunn, president and CEO of the Chesapeake Conservancy, stated The Inflation Discount Act “makes document investments to deal with local weather change from many angles.”
Cardin, as a senior member of the Senate Atmosphere and Public Works Committee, and Van Hollen, an appropriator, each had a hand in crafting the laws. Van Hollen was additionally a longtime sponsor of a measure, relationship again to his service within the Home of Representatives, that’s being included into the legislative bundle: The creation of a federal inexperienced financial institution, which, he stated, will assist spur non-public investments in renewable vitality and act as a “type of multiplier on the nationwide stage.”
Maryland has a inexperienced financial institution of its personal, the Maryland Clear Power Middle, that’s already seeing a lift in funding and duty by way of the Local weather Options Now Act of 2022, which handed by way of the Basic Meeting this spring. Montgomery County additionally has a inexperienced financial institution, and a small Baltimore-based nonprofit, the Local weather Entry Fund, has successfully develop into a inexperienced financial institution, working with non-public business to parcel out funding for clear vitality grants. The preliminary $20 billion funding for the proposed federal Clear Power Accelerator may ultimately assist all three state-based inexperienced financial institution increase their missions.
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Different provisions of the invoice that would assist increase the local weather and environmental safety in Maryland, in line with the senators:
- Funding that may provide tax incentives to householders who scale back greenhouse fuel emissions of their homes by way of conversion packages like electrification, which, the senators stated, would result in reductions in utility payments;
- Funding to develop agricultural conservation and stewardship packages and initiatives that assist farmers scale back runoff and different air pollution on their land — Van Hollen stated lower than 20% of Maryland farmers’ purposes for these packages have been granted lately;
- Elevated funding for the state’s 5 nationwide wildlife refuges.
The Inflation Discount Act isn’t nearly local weather change, nevertheless. The senators stated it can present added safety for Marylanders who obtain medical insurance by way of the federal Inexpensive Care Act, will scale back prescription drug and insulin costs for some, and can higher allow Maryland’s 4 traditionally Black schools and universities to compete for federal analysis {dollars}.
Even with the invoice’s passage in sight, Maryland local weather activists and public well being advocates are scheduled to get collectively Thursday morning in Baltimore, exterior the Episcopal Archdiocese of Maryland, to induce its passage. Cardin and Van Hollen can be becoming a member of them, together with former state Del. Aruna Miller, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, Baltimore County Government Johnny Olszewski (D), and Howard County Government Calvin Ball (D).
“I have to let you know, this has been a traditionally productive time for the US Congress,” Cardin noticed Wednesday. “Acknowledge that the Senate’s 50-50, Republican and Democrat, that the Home has the slimmest of Democratic margins, and but we’ve been in a position to get important payments by way of the Congress and to the president’s desk.”
Requested why Biden’s ballot numbers stay low regardless of the burst of Democratic legislative successes on Capitol Hill in latest weeks, each Cardin and Van Hollen sounded hopeful concerning the looming midterm elections.
“We’ll let the midterms converse for themselves,” Cardin stated, “however as Democrats, we’re optimistic.”
Van Hollen, who has headed the Home and Senate Democrats’ marketing campaign committees in prior elections, predicted that voters would respect Democrats’ makes an attempt to resolve the nation’s issues.
“Elections are about decisions,” he stated. “Whereas our Republican colleagues within the Senate are speaking rather a lot about inflation, they haven’t labored to do something about inflation.”
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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