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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 ...
Lawsuit Against Maryland Challenges First Amendment Violations in Green Power Marketing
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-06T17:09:22-04:00Saturday, October 5th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 100% renewable, Kaplow, REC, SB 1, Senate Bill 1, Stuart Kaplow|
A group of energy companies are suing the State of Maryland challenging the recently enacted Senate Bill 1, which restrains truthfully marketing clean energy products including renewable electricity in the State, in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Maryland Declaration of ...
Greenstalling is Not a Thing, But ..
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-29T16:31:44-04:00Saturday, September 28th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, Climate Week NYC, environmental attorney Maryland, green bleaching, green washing, greenstalling, greenwashing, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
Last week's Climate Week NYC was driven by the theme “It’s Time,” a rallying cry meant to emphasize the urgency of climate action. However, a new term emerged in that highly charged environment, “greenstalling.” This concept, according to some of the radical environmental movement voices ...
Eyeglasses in the Sights of Climate Change Activists
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-21T15:07:13-04:00Saturday, September 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: eyeglasses, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
In his recent video, “Can We Stop Global Warming?” Bill Gates provides us with an interesting, if not somewhat alarming, statistic, the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producing a single pair of eyeglasses amount to 8.2 pounds. This figure doesn’t include emissions from glasses ...
Howard County Residential Contract Required Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-14T18:14:02-04:00Saturday, September 14th, 2024|Categories: Real Estate Law|Tags: Howard County house contract, Howard County purchase agreement, Howard County residential contract, Maryland residential contract of sale, residential contract of sale Howard County|
The huge real estate industry wide changes that were effective August 17, 2024, literally rewriting the process of contracting for the sale and purchase of residential real estate across the U.S., do not change the legal requirements that those contracts include disclosures, notices, and other ...
Comments on the 2024 Maryland BEPS Regulations
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-14T10:24:31-05:00Saturday, September 7th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Building Energy Performance Standards, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental lawyer Maryland, EUI, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on January 13, 2025 citizen groups and business associations jointly filed suit in the U.S. District Court against the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment challenging the Maryland BEPS program as preempted by Federal statute and unenforceable as a ...
California to Delay Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-14T17:18:33-04:00Saturday, August 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Related Financial Risk, Corporate Data Accountability Act, environmental attorney Maryland, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SB 219, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on September 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 219 into law, making changes to California's climate accountability package enacted last year, as described below. In a move that signals a significant shift in the pace of climate reporting laws, ...