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Advocates, Lawmakers Hope 2025 Will Be the Year Maryland Stops Subsidizing Trash Incineration
Advocates are urging the Moore administration and elected officials to announce their early support for ending public dollars for waste-to-energy facilities ahead of the 2025 General Assembly session.
By Aman Azhar
For more than a decade, Maryland Sen. Karen Lewis Young tried to get the state to pull the plug on public subsidies for trash incineration, a form of energy that’s considered dirtier than coal. None of the bills have crossed the finish line.
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