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PepsiCo Wins Dismissal of New York Greenwashing Lawsuit Alleging Plastic Pollution
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-12T12:07:34-05:00Saturday, November 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, greenwashing, greenwashing lawsuit, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, PepsiCo, plastic pollution, Stuart Kaplow|
After this blog was posted, on December 9, 2024, Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York filed a Notice Of Appeal of her office’s loss described below, to the Supreme Court of the State of New York. On October 31, PepsiCo ...
Maryland Government is Coming for Your Fossil Fuel Appliances – Again
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-28T17:12:01-05:00Saturday, November 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: clean heat standard, climate change, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, Stuart Kaplow, Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard|
Maryland is proposing to ban fossil fuel burning equipment in buildings (e.g., furnaces, boilers, water heaters, clothing dryers, etc.) with two new programs, a Clean Heat Standard and Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard. Flying in the face of what is being done elsewhere across the country ...
29 Billion Square Feet of LEED Certified Space and Counting
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-17T07:17:14-05:00Saturday, November 16th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: green building, Greenbuild, Kaplow, LEED, LEED v5, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland Green Building Council, Stuart Kaplow, US Green Building Council, USGBC|
Last Thursday, during the 2024 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the U.S. Green Building Council unveiled its Impact Report: Accelerating Green Building to Improve Lives and Livelihoods. This comprehensive review celebrates three decades of innovation in sustainable building with a current capstone of more than ...
Voters Save Gas Stoves from Government Ban Portending More ..
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-13T19:23:26-05:00Saturday, November 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all electric building, BEPS, decarbonization, environmental attorney Maryland, gas stove, HB 1589, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Measure No. 2066, Stuart Kaplow|
While many Americans were focused on the presidential election last Tuesday, citizens from Washington State and others interested in energy were paying attention to a successful Washington voter initiative protecting access to natural gas for homes and businesses, including preventing regulatory actions to limit access ...
Ocean City and Others File Lawsuit to Reverse Offshore Wind Approval
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-06T09:28:17-05:00Thursday, October 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 1:24-cv-03111, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Kaplow, Maryland, Mayor and City Council of Ocean City, North Atlantic Right Whale, Ocean City lawsuit, offshore wind, Stuart Kaplow, Town of Ocean City, US Wind, US Wind Inc|
A significant lawsuit was filed last week asking the Federal Court for an order “holding unlawful, vacating, and setting aside [the] September 4, 2024 decision approving the Construction and Operations Plan for the Maryland Offshore Wind Project,” the first phase of which would have permitted ...
Lawsuit Challenges D.C. Gas Appliance Ban and Net Zero Building Code
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-27T13:24:45-04:00Saturday, October 26th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all elctric building, BEPS, Bill 13-22, Clean Energy DC Building Code Amendment Act of 2022, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, EPCA, gas appliance ban, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, National Apartment Association, National Association of Home Builders, preemption, Restaurant Law Center, Stuart Kaplow, Washington Gas Light Company|
A lawsuit worthy of attention has been filed seeking to halt the implementation of Washington D.C.’s gas appliance ban and net zero building code. That complaint is nearly identical to the litigation commenced on the same day last week against Montgomery County, Maryland seeking to stop ...
Lawsuit Charges Montgomery County Gas Appliance Ban is Preempted and Void
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-06T12:06:39-05:00Friday, October 18th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all electric building, all electric building code, Bill 13-22, Clean Energy DC Building Code Amendment Act of 2022, D.C. appliance ban, decarbonization, EPCA, Kaplow, Montgomery County, natural gas ban, preemption, Stuart Kaplow|
Earlier today more than half a dozen business and labor groups filed suit seeking a permanent injunctive against enforcement of Montgomery County, Maryland Bill 13-22: Buildings - Comprehensive Building Decarbonization, which bans the use of gas appliances in new construction. A partnership of business and ...
Federal Court Reinstates Greenwashing Case Over Aspirational Statements
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-12T19:34:57-04:00Saturday, October 12th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: DC Consumer Protection Procedures Act, Earth Island Institute, Earth Island Institute v. The Coca-Cola Company, greenwashing, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Stuart Kaplow|
A recent ruling from a federal appellate court is bringing new attention to claims of greenwashing including specifically that a business’s aspiration statements about environmental matters (e.g., “we will be net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or “we will use at least 50% recycled ...