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<table width="550" style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto;"><tbody><tr><td width="410" valign="top"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/pdhdlrvwvsfbflkkbyjvvbvkkybkwmcgdsvfjhrjhvvq_bcblpzbzypgcglzzqbl.html?a=&b=3134&c=21989&d=2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Martin O’Malley talks confronting Trump official on immigration: Silence is ‘irresponsible’</a>Martin O’Malley — the former Maryland governor and presidential candidate who…</td></tr></tbody></table>=<h5 class="subheader" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, san-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/10/martin_omalley_climate_change_helped_spark" data-clicky-href="#story/related_content_link/bottom" data-clicky-title="Story: Related Content Link - Bottom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); outline: 0px;">Martin O’Malley: Climate Change Helped Spark Destabilization of Syria, Rise of Islamic State</a></h5>Sep 10, 2015 | STORY=

<span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While the Pope sucks up all the media attention with his <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/18/pope-encyclical-action-climate-change/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">climate encyclical</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> today, <a href="https://martinomalley.com/" onclick="gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https://martinomalley.com/', 'Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley');" target="blank" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has released a <a href="https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/a-jobs-agenda-for-our-renewable-energy-future/" onclick="gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/a-jobs-agenda-for-our-renewable-energy-future/', 'position paper');" target="blank" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">position paper</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on the environment that deserves more attention, even if he’s not frontrunner <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/13/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-bid/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hillary Clinton</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or progressive idol <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/29/bernie-sanders-run-president-democrat/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bernie Sanders</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In the paper, the former Maryland governor burnished his credentials as a climate hawk, laying out his plan for addressing <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">climate change</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The paper revealed O’Malley’s unequivocal opposition to the <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/keystone-xl-pipeline-2/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keystone XL pipeline</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/offshore-oil-drilling-energy/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">offshore and Arctic drilling</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and<a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/fracking-2/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> fracking</a><span style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, instead promoting a rapid transition to clean energy.

<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/18/martin-omalley-climate-plan">http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/18/martin-omalley-climate-plan</a>

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<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/13/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-bid/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Hillary Clinton</a> may be the prohibitive favorite, and the Democratic slate for the presidential nomination almost certainly won’t be as large as the Republican field. But Saturday, another credible candidate joined Clinton and Vermont Sen. <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/29/bernie-sanders-run-president-democrat/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Bernie Sanders</a> in the race: former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who left office in January after serving for eight years. And, like Clinton and Sanders, those who care about the climate will find him <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/26/climate-denying-republicans-run-president/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">a more sympathetic candidate than anyone on the GOP side</a>.

In his <a href="https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/announcement-speech/" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">announcement speech</a>, O’Malley declared, “<a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Climate change</a> is real. We must create an American jobs agenda to build a new renewable energy future.”

On the <a href="https://martinomalley.com/vision/" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“vision” page of his campaign website</a>, he says, “Clean, renewable sources of energy represent one of the biggest economic opportunities in a century. And the threat of climate change is real and immediate. We must make better choices for a more secure and independent energy future—by limiting carbon emissions, setting <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">renewable energy</a> targets, driving innovation, seeding new industries and creating good local jobs.”

But he also has a track record of action. As governor, he established a statewide Commission on Climate Change shortly after taking office in 2007. “Protecting our communities from climate change is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue—it is a Maryland issue,”<a href="http://mde.maryland.gov/programs/ResearchCenter/ReportsandPublications/Pages/researchcenter/publications/general/emde/vol3no1/rggi.aspx" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;"> he said at the time</a>. “This executive order charts a path for the future—one in which we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and work to prevent sea level rise and coastal flooding.”

<a href="http://climatechange.maryland.gov/site/assets/files/1839/climate_change_commission_final_eo_01_01_2014_14.pdf" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">In his executive order</a>, he said, “As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP) in March 2014, the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the ocean, and numerous opportunities exist to respond to and mitigate associated risks. Human activities, notably the burning of fossil fuels, continue to contribute to the causes and consequences of climate change.”

He continued, “Maryland has already experienced some of the effects of climate change, including sea level rise of more than a foot in the last century; increasing water temperatures within the Chesapeake Bay; more rain and flooding in the winter and spring, and less in the summer; and more water shortages.”

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