Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) said Wednesday he will allow a much-debated bill mandating that Maryland’s electric utilities get half of their energy from renewable sources by 2030 to become law without his signature.
But he expressed serious reservations about the Clean Energy Jobs Act, and cast his decision to let the bill to take effect as a good-faith effort to jump-start a conversation about getting the state to 100 percent renewable energy use by 2040.