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13Jan, 2025

Citizens and Businesses Join Suing Maryland to Halt BEPS

By |Monday, January 13th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Earlier today citizen groups representing the interests of thousands of residents and business associations with thousands of members filed suit in the U.S. District Court against the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment challenging the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) program as ...

4Jan, 2025

The Change in Administration will be “the” Environmental Issue of 2025

By |Saturday, January 4th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

It will surprise no one that U.S. environmental and energy public policy will change dramatically in 2025. Donald Trump was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 2024, even before his inauguration as the 47th President. This is much more than only shrinking the EPA ...

28Dec, 2024

Top 10 (or 12!) List of Environmental Blog Posts

By |Saturday, December 28th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the environmental matters that dominated the year, those that captured attention, sparked debate, and influenced the trajectory of environmental policy and innovation. In the spirit of David Letterman’s iconic countdowns, we present a Top ...

21Dec, 2024

Net Zero Certification with GBI: A Path to Verified Sustainability

By |Saturday, December 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

There is a good option for business and building owners pursuing Net Zero, the Green Building Initiative’s Green Globes Journey to Net Zero. We have blogged much in recent years about Net Zero including the perils of making Net Zero claims and we have been ...

14Dec, 2024

Heat Pump Shipments are Down this Year for Good Reason

By |Saturday, December 14th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

Despite generous incentives from the Biden administration residential heat pump shipments are down this year. A leading daily American newspaper reported in a front page story “heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and stalled in Europe.” ...

7Dec, 2024

Due Diligence Before Installing an EV Charging Station

By |Saturday, December 7th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

As electric vehicles (EVs) became increasingly popular in some locales, irrespective of the all but certain slowdown in the EVs market with the incoming Trump administration, some property owners continue exploring the installation of EV charging stations to attract tenants and visitors. EV charging station ...

30Nov, 2024

PepsiCo Wins Dismissal of New York Greenwashing Lawsuit Alleging Plastic Pollution

By |Saturday, November 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 ...

23Nov, 2024

Maryland Government is Coming for Your Fossil Fuel Appliances – Again

By |Saturday, November 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

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