While I was busy protesting coal in Washington DC, the MD state senate passed GGERA, a with a whopping vote of 36-9. Check out the vote count after the jump.

And last week, while I was at PowerShift 09, two committees in the House of Delegates held a hearing on the bill, which also went well.

What’s next? The House committees will hold a vote (hopefully sometime in the next few weeks), and then it’s on to the Senate floor. Overall, things are looking good, but of course, I will let you know the minute anything changes.

I also want to take a moment to send a giant THANK YOU shout-out to all of you, the grassroots activists who worked on this bill so tirelessly for the past few years. You are the ones responsible for making MD’s leadership on global warming a reality!

Vote Counts:

Voting Yea – 36

MR.PRESIDENT

DYSON

HARRIS

MADALENO

ROBEY

ASTLE

EXUM

JONES

MCFADDEN

ROSAPEPE

BRINKLEY

FOREHAND

KASEMEYER

MUSE

STONE

BROCHIN

FROSH

KELLEY

PETERS

ZIRKIN

CONWAY

GARAGIOLA

KING

PINSKY

CURRIE

GLADDEN

KLAUSMEIER

PIPKIN

DEGRANGE

GLASSMAN

KRAMER

PUGH

DELLA

HARRINGTON

LENETT

RASKIN

Voting Nay – 9

COLBURN

GREENIP

KITTLEMAN

MUNSON

STOLTZFUS

EDWARDS

HAINES

MOONEY

SIMONAIRE

Not Voting – 0

Excused From Voting – 0

Excused (Absent) – 2

JACOBS

MIDDLETON