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Maryland Medical Marijuana Producing Real Estate Opportunities
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:43-05:00Tuesday, June 30th, 2015|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission published the long awaited draft regulations last Friday, June 26, 2015, and it is anticipated that applications for growers, processors and dispensaries will be accepted beginning in September. Noting the lesson that those who benefitted most from the California Gold ...
In the Name of Clean Water Millions of Acres are Proposed for Federal Control
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:33-05:00Saturday, June 27th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not just lawyers). Please sign up for notice of new blog posts via email, at Green Building Law Update blog. ...
Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:29-05:00Saturday, June 27th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
Against a backdrop of California experiencing the worst drought in its history and the U.S. Supreme Court having before it an interstate water dispute, where Florida seeks an equitable apportionment of the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers over the claims of upstream Georgia, ...
HUD Adopts 2009 IECC (Not the 2012 or 2015 version) and Why You Care
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:39-05:00Wednesday, June 10th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not just lawyers). Please sign up for notice of new blog posts via email, at Green Building Law Update blog. ...
What LEED Credit is Almost Never Achieved?
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:38-05:00Wednesday, June 10th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
One of the key features of the LEED rating systems is that, after satisfying minimum program requirements and prerequisites, project teams may select from the available compilation of LEED credits. Those options are key not only because there is no one homogenous building type but ...
GBCI Changed its Name and You Need to Change Your Documents
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:42-05:00Wednesday, May 27th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
GBCI, formerly known as the Green Building Certification Institute, has changed its name to Green Business Certification Inc. It will continue to be referred by the acronym GBCI. GBCI administers project certifications and professional credentials within the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Green Building Rating ...
Produced with Genetic Engineering
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:41-05:00Wednesday, May 27th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not just lawyers). Please sign up for notice of new blog posts via email, at Green Building Law Update blog. ...
Microbeads Ban in Maryland will be more Efficacious than Others
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:40-05:00Wednesday, May 20th, 2015|Categories: Environmental Law|
Synthetic plastic microbeads are an effective mild abrasive ingredient appearing since the 1990s in personal care products including facial cleansers, shampoos, and toothpastes. Environmental interests have sought to ban microbeads contending the plastic microbeads (that look like tiny colorful dots), cannot be treated by conventional ...




