Gov. Wes Moore has announced Maryland’s plan to phase out gas-powered car sales by 2035 in its effort to curb climate change, but the GOP says this plan is too radical and impractical.
“Today, we’re talking about a major transformation that is going to define this administration—and that’s how we turn Maryland from a state powered by oil and gas to a state powered by clean energy,” said Moore during a Monday press conference.
Maryland is joining a growing number of states by implementing a rule for 100 percent of car sales to be for electric vehicles in a little over a decade. The plan is modeled after a California 2022 initiative. The same year, the Maryland assembly passed the Climate Solutions Now Act, SB 528 (pdf), which requires states to completely end vehicle CO2 emissions by 2045….