The Maryland Department of the Environment's Commission on Climate Change Mitigation Working Group (MCCMWG) will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, January 21. MACo members and staff are encouraged to participate. When: Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where: Maryland Department of the Environment office; 1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21230. From the Commission's website: The purpose of the MWG is to recommend regulatory, market-based and voluntary programs to reduce greenhouse gas…

Baltimore City has re-fashioned a new Office on Equity & Civil Rights, timing the announcement on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced the establishment of a new Office of Equity in Baltimore City government. In addition to its overarching mission to carry out activities to eliminate discrimination and protect individuals' civil rights, the newly named Office of Equity & Civil Rights will also be charged with ensuring, citywide,…

The 2020 Maryland General Assembly Session is underway - but for those delivering testimony, it's not business as usual. To offer testimony - written and/or oral - for a bill hearing, you must sign up by a specific deadline...that hasn't changed. Each Committee has its own policies and procedures determining those deadlines (see links at the end of this post). Those procedures used to involve numbers of copies to drop off by a specific time…