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Majority‑leader bill would require annual EV‑charging adequacy plan to meet greenhouse‑gas targets
Summary
House Bill 897 would require Maryland to produce recurring assessments of electric‑vehicle charging needs tied to the state's greenhouse‑gas reduction goals, aiming to measure ‘adequacy’ of public and private charging networks and inform future investments.
At a Feb. 20 Environment and Transportation Committee hearing, the House Majority Leader introduced House Bill 897 to require Maryland to assess annually how much electric‑vehicle charging infrastructure the state would need to meet its statutory greenhouse‑gas reduction targets, including a 60 percent reduction benchmark cited by the sponsor.
The sponsor said the bill is not itself a funding authorization but an “adequacy and needs” planning requirement: an annual accounting of where the state stands in provisioning charger…
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