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  "path": "/2026/02/26/protect-seif-rally-budget/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T00:43:30.000Z",
  "site": "https://marylandmatters.org",
  "tags": [
    "Budget",
    "Environment",
    "Gov & Politics",
    "CCAN",
    "Chesapeake Climate Action Network",
    "electric heat pumps",
    "Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club",
    "Maryland Energy Administration",
    "Maryland Sierra Club",
    "PJM",
    "renewable energy",
    "SEIF",
    "solar power",
    "Strategic Energy Investment Fund",
    "Wes Moore"
  ],
  "textContent": "Environmental groups rallied Thursday to protect the Strategic Energy Investment Fund, a utility-funded program created to help cut power bills and lower greenhouse gas emissions, but increasingly used by state officials to balance the state budget.",
  "title": "‘It’s personal’: Maryland climate groups defend energy dollars amid budget pinch"
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