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Set Maryland on a path to 100% clean energy by 2035, directing the Maryland Energy Administration to establish a framework for a clean energy standard, alongside cutting greenhouse gas emissions 60% below 2006 levels by 2031 and reaching net-zero by 2045.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 78%

All three cited sources were fetched and verified. Source 1 (Office of Governor Wes Moore, PRIMARY) contains the cited quote VERBATIM ("The order also calls for the Maryland Energy Administration to establish a framework for a clean energy standard to achieve 100% clean energy by 2035") and confirms the 60%-below-2006-by-2031 and net-zero-by-2045 targets — directly documenting the launching action of THIS promise (Executive Order 01.01.2024.19). Source 2 (Maryland Department of the Environment, PRIMARY) confirms release of 25 agency climate plans with "over 100 priority actions," the heat-pump/fleet-electrification/energy-portfolio language, and the June 2024 EO directing all agencies to complete Climate Implementation Plans by end of 2024; the cited quote has only trivial paraphrase ("The plans" vs "The agency plans," and a compressed rendering of the June-EO sentence) and is faithful, not fabricated. Source 3 (Baltimore Banner, REPUTABLE_SECONDARY) confirms the counter-evidence: a fast-tracked process for new natural gas plants, up to 10 "dispatchable" projects, and the 4-zero-emissions-to-1 approval ratio. PARTIAL is the correct, conservative rating. Moore fully performed and led the launching action promised (signing the EO that directs MEA to build the clean-energy-standard framework and creating the Climate Subcabinet with mandated agency plans), but the substantive outcome is incomplete: no binding clean energy standard has been enacted, the 2031/2035/2045 targets are future and not yet independently ratable, and Moore approved new gas capacity that partially cuts against the 100%-clean goal. The outcome does not overstate the evidence — it does not claim full delivery (would be FULL/CHAMPIONED) nor a reversal (MISALIGNED). No rejection condition applies: every source is reachable, supports the material attributed to it, and no quote is fabricated.

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