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Climate change is an existential threat to our way of life, both in the long term and day-to-day.

Where does Maryland stand on climate change policy? Could our state become a leader and innovator? What are the possibilities? The obstacles? And how will climate policy change with a new administration in Annapolis?

These are the issues Maryland Matters will explore in our Climate Calling special series.

The Climate Calling series is made possible through the support of Ed Hatcher and Angie Cannon.

A Maryland businessman’s quest for greener concrete has taken hold in federal policy. Will the state follow suit?

An almost-accidental landing in Easton has led to a full and varied career in the green energy space.

As political battles erupt over where to place large solar arrays, school rooftops seem like a logical solution — and a teaching tool.

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Maryland is a participant in one of the most durable and successful climate-righting programs in history, but politics sometimes interfere.

As the threat of climate change becomes more dire and as technological advances make alternative energy ever cheaper options, the push to decarbonize the electric grid is growing.

Green banks can help promote and fund clean energy initiatives that might not otherwise get the capital and attention they need to launch.

It’s a bureaucratic process, but it’s fused with optimism and imagination.

Nine years ago, the General Assembly passed a law governing the natural gas industry that was designed, among other things, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. has just eight operating Liquified Natural Gas processing plants – and one of them, Cove Point, is in Lusby, in Calvert County.

Ten candidates for governor laid out their plans to tackle climate change at a Tuesday night forum, a number of them supporting mass transit…