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Balancing Environmental Justice: A Landmark Ruling in Louisiana
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-08-24T18:01:07-04:00Saturday, August 24th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, environmental justice, environmental laws Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
Last Thursday, the Federal Court in Lake Charles, Louisiana, issued a judgment that may have far reaching implications for environmental justice across the United States. The court granted the State of Louisiana permanent relief, enjoining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice ...
City Cannot Ban Natural Gas so it Will Tax it Out of Existence
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-09T15:11:49-05:00Saturday, August 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, BEPS, City of Berkeley, EPCA, Large Buildings Fossil Fuel Emissions Tax, Maryland BEPS, natural gas ban, preempted|
After this was posted, in the November 5th election, Berkeley, California, voters overwhelming defeated, with more than 68% of citizens voting against the citizen initiative Measure GG, The Large Buildings Fossil Fuel Emissions Tax, described below. After being told by the courts that its attempts ...
Banning Electric Vehicles from Older Residential Building Garages
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-08-10T07:58:05-04:00Saturday, August 3rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: banning EVs, electric vehicle, electric vehicle charger, EVs, Kaplow, keeping EVs out, structural integrity reserve studies, Stuart Kaplow|
Electric vehicles symbolize a future where clean energy and sustainable transportation go hand in hand. However, the transition to this future isn't as straightforward as merely legislating the right to charge EVs in garages multifamily buildings. Key among the issues is that EVs are hundreds ...
New Draft Reproposed Maryland BEPS Regulations Require Net Zero by 2040
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-19T18:32:34-05:00Saturday, July 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, energy use intensity, EUI, Executive Order 01.01.2024.19, GHG, greenhouse gas, Maryland BEPS, net direct greenhouse gas|
After this blog was posted, Maryland published the Notice of Final Action for COMAR 26.28 Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS). The regulations described below will be final and effective on December 23, 2024. The Notice is available here. After this was posted, on September 6, 2024, the ...
How Garbage Disposals Fight Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-21T18:34:05-04:00Saturday, July 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: compost, elastocaloric cooling, food waste, garbage disposal, geoengineering, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, methane, Stuart Kaplow|
In our daily efforts to lead eco friendly lives, we often overlook a humble but powerful tool right in our kitchens, the in sink garbage disposal. It is sad but there is no dispute that more than one third of the food produced in the ...
Baltimore’s Climate Change Lawsuit Dismissed
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-13T16:54:01-04:00Saturday, July 13th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BP P.L.C., climate change, climate change lawsuit dead, Judge Videtta Brown, Kaplow, Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P.L.C., Stuart Kaplow|
In an unprecedented decision, a state court has dismissed a lawsuit “for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted” by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore against 25 major fossil fuel companies, which alleged the companies are responsible for a ...
Protecting Gas Stoves from the Government Headed to the Ballot
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-06T17:51:55-04:00Saturday, July 6th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, gas stove, Initiative 2066, Maryland BEPS, natural gas ban|
With 431,063 signatures submitted on July 2, 2024, to the Washington Secretary of State’s office, it is all but certain that a voter initiative will be on the November ballot to prevent the state from banning natural gas in homes and businesses. Initiative 2066 would ...
High Court Curbs EPA to Protect Environment
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-01T06:24:13-04:00Saturday, June 29th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Federal Implementation Plan, good neighbor plan, ground level ozone, Kaplow, Ohio v EPA, Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency, Stuart Kaplow, upwind states|
The Supreme Court decision in Ohio et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. is a significant victory for environmental protection while reigning in the power of federal agencies. Among the blockbuster decisions issued in this term, the Court granted this application for a stay, ...