ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race between Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan turned to environmental issues Tuesday.
Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County Executive who is endorsed by the Sierra Club, visited flood-plagued Annapolis to attack former Gov. Hogan as weak on the environment, while Hogan’s campaign points to numerous climate accomplishments when he was governor, including resisting Donald Trump’s efforts to gut funding for Chesapeake Bay cleanup during his tenure.
The event in Annapolis was set amid sandbags sitting permanently outside some businesses, where a $100 million infrastructure project to raise levees and other flood barriers is viewed as a solution. Much of the project will be paid for by the climate- focused U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, which received no Republican votes when it passed Congress in 2022. Hogan has not specifically said if he would have supported the Act, which providing an attack line for Democrats on environmental issues…