Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley joined students from across the state of Maryland in front of the State House at noon yesterday to show support for the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2012 (HB 441/SB 237).

Holding banners and signs asserting their support for clean energy, more than one hundred young people from an unprecedented 12 college campuses gathered to deliver petitions and letters of support from their universities for the bill.The action came one day before a scheduled House Economic Matters Committee hearing on the bill. The rally was one of the largest student demonstrations on energy policy in Annapolis history.