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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 ...

16Nov, 2024

29 Billion Square Feet of LEED Certified Space and Counting

By |Saturday, November 16th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

9Nov, 2024

Voters Save Gas Stoves from Government Ban Portending More ..

By |Saturday, November 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

31Oct, 2024

Ocean City and Others File Lawsuit to Reverse Offshore Wind Approval

By |Thursday, October 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

26Oct, 2024

Lawsuit Challenges D.C. Gas Appliance Ban and Net Zero Building Code

By |Saturday, October 26th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

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