>"For Baltimore transit advocates, there is hope for expanded services as Gov.-elect Wes Moore has expressed an interest in reviving the proposed cross-city east-west Red Line that exiting Gov. Larry Hogan shelved in 2015, calling it at the time a “boondoggle.”
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>There is also talk of new transit options for Towson and Lutherville, with Greenmount Avenue and York Road being a transit corridor, possibly with a subway running beneath it.
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>Baltimore has wrestled with transit woes and how to move people quickly and efficiently for more than a century. And with climate change, what is the best way to accomplish those goals and reduce dependence on gas guzzling, air polluting automobiles, buses and trucks that course over an endless spaghetti network of roads throughout the city and stab into the nearby counties?
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>It was Bernard N. Baker, a Baltimore businessman, who first proposed a 4-mile crosstown subway for the city after Baltimore’s Great Fire of 1904.
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>The projected route was beneath Baltimore Street with passengers given the option to transfer to a north-south route, that would be constructed in a tunnel underneath St. Paul and Light streets. Additional lateral lines would branch off this main system.
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>“Why not a subway from the centre of the city to Peabody Heights and beyond?” H.L. Mencken wrote in 1911 in The Evening Sun. “All that region between Twenty-fifth street and Belvedere avenue is rapidly developing. In a dozen years it will have a population of 50,000 and within its bounds will be $25,000,000 worth of property.
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>“At present it is reached by two cars, and both run, for the first full mile, north of Baltimore street, along very crowded streets. Baltimore, growing rapidly in area, and (counting the suburbs as part of the city) as steadily in population, must come to subways soon or late.”
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>Mencken envisioned that “No doubt the Baltimore of 1950 will have at least three mainlines of subways — one running from Charles and Baltimore streets to Roland Park, another from end to end of Baltimore street, and the third from the City Hall, or thereabout, to what is now Walbrook, with perhaps a fourth running to Locust Point."

>"Maryland legislators and environmental groups are urging Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration to adopt California’s new electric vehicle standards by the end of the year, or risk falling behind the Golden State.
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>California’s regulation requires an increasing percentage of light-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission. By model year 2035, all new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state will need to be electric, with a maximum of 20% of models being plug-in hybrids.
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>The rule was approved by the California Air Resources Board in August, following a 2020 executive order from California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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>According to Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services, Maryland must eventually do the same. That’s because in 2007, state legislators passed a law pledging to adopt and maintain California’s vehicle emissions standards, which were stricter than the federal government’s.
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>In a statement, a spokesman for Maryland’s Department of the Environment said officials will start “considering action” after California’s Office of Administrative Law issues a final approval for the state’s policy.
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>That test could come Wednesday. The California office is due to release its decision by the end of the day, said Elizabeth Heidig, its deputy director.
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>But Maryland should have been more proactive, said Del. David Fraser-Hidalgo, a Montgomery County Democrat.
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>”All too often sometimes, in government we sit and we wait,” he said. “We need to not sit and wait.”
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>Some 16 other states are in a similar boat, having adopted California’s stricter vehicle emission standards in the past, according to The Associated Press.
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>If Hogan’s administration doesn’t act by the end of this year, Maryland could fall behind, said Lindsey Mendelson, transportation representative for the Maryland Sierra Club."

To say that this project promotes the continuation of landfills is like saying paying someone to pick up cigarette butts off the street promotes smoking. The gas is there already. They have to burn it already to convert it into CO2. It's simply a way to capture waste and pollution that would have been there anyway. This is a county run landfill it is not profitable