Maryland’s “Climate Study” Looks More Like an Eco-Left Setup
A new “climate damages” study in Maryland is being sold as objective research. In reality, it looks a lot more like the opening move in a coordinated political campaign targeting American energy producers.
The Washington Free Beacon reports,
“The left-wing environmental nonprofit Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) is bankrolling a study commissioned by Maryland governor Wes Moore (D.) to “assess the undue burden Marylanders are paying for extreme weather events,” records show. The group says the study is the first step in passing a law that would require oil companies to pay the state billions of dollars in climate damages.
“When Moore announced he would move forward with the study in December, he touted $30,000 in “philanthropic funding” but did not disclose where that funding came from. Maryland’s 2027 state budget shows that RFF provided the $30,000 grant, which, in addition to $470,000 in state funds, will be used to “illustrate the extent of the damage done by increasingly intense weather events along with other environmental shifts related to climate change’.”
That raises a serious question: Is this study about science or about setting the stage for a predetermined outcome?
“The study, which will calculate past and future costs associated with climate change, was initiated in March and will be complete by the end of the year. It is being conducted by the Center for Climate Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based group that conducts global research on climate change, including in collaboration with Chinese government agencies. The center lists the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, which has taken in $640,000 from the RFF in recent years, as one of its “key partners.”’
Maryland families deserve transparency, not a taxpayer-backed study designed to justify a predetermined political agenda.
April 30, 2026