It’s time for another MD state update from your friendly Annapolis correspondant. Woo! And I know what you’re thinking: another upbeat and perky blog from Holly. Mostly, you’re right. (as a sidenote, that’s the only thing that makes me jealous of the VA team – they get way more opportunities to post snarky blog posts)

Yesterday, there were two fun and exciting developments on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act.

First, Mike and I went to lunch at the Governor’s Mansion. It was very fancy inside.

More importantly for this part of the day was the press conference of support for the bill, featuring Gov O’Malley himself, along with our amazing bill sponsors, Senator Paul Pinsky and Delegate Kumar Barve and Jim Strong of United Steel Workers. Here’s our press release.

I was fully expecting some singing of folks songs in a circle, but I guess that that would be a little bit too much for me to ask of all the serious folks who were there.

Later in the afternoon we all headed over to the hearing for the Senate Committee on Education Health and Environmental Affairs – the first hearing for the bill.