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Recent Environmental Law Articles
2018 IgCC Poised to be Adopted for the First Time
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:57-05:00Sunday, August 9th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
Montgomery County, Maryland is on the cusp of being the first to adopt the 2018 International Green Construction Code. The proposed Executive Regulation 12-20 appeared in the Montgomery County Register on August 1. A public hearing will be held on proposed regulation on September 3. ...
More Than Green Buildings, Green Roads
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:56-05:00Sunday, August 2nd, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
If green building is going to repair the planet it will have to include green roads. Over 65% of the impervious surfaces in the U.S. are related to transportation (e.g., roads, parking lots, sidewalks, and driveways), with the vast majority being roads. There are 4,180,817 ...
EPA Proposes First Greenhouse Gas Emissions Limits for Aircraft
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:55-05:00Sunday, July 26th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
Last Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards for airplanes used in commercial aviation and large business jets. “This standard is the first time the U.S. has ever proposed regulating greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft,” according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. And as ...
Bird Friendly Building now the Law in Howard County
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:54-05:00Sunday, July 19th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
Howard County, Maryland has become the first jurisdiction in the state and one of few places in the country to pass a mandatory “bird-friendly design” law for new construction of privately owned buildings. The new law enacted on July 7, 2020 and effective on September ...
New Lead (Pb) in Soil Standard Now Effective in Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:49-05:00Sunday, July 12th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
The EPA has described lead as the number one environmental public health hazard in the U.S. And despite that the CDC has in the past identified childhood lead poisoning prevention since 1971 as 1 of 10 great U.S. public health achievements which has included success ...
Four New LEED Pilot Credits Respond to COVID-19
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:48-05:00Sunday, June 14th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared as an update to my June 6th blog post, Two New LEED Pilot Credits Respond to COVID-19, describing that the U.S. Green Building Council has now added two additional Pilot Credits responding to the novel coronavirus. You may reasonably infer that ...
New BREEAM In Use Version in a Changing World
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:47-05:00Monday, May 18th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
Last week BRE Global announced that the “BREEAM USA In-Use Version 6 for Commercial and Residential” green building rating system has launched. In addition to improvements to the prior commercial building rating system BREEAM In-Use now includes residential for the first time (accepting that existing ...
The New and Improved 2020 ICC 700 National Green Building Standard
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:25:46-05:00Sunday, May 10th, 2020|Categories: Environmental Law|
The 2020 version of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS) is now available for free download and public use. You care about this because the NGBS is the most used green building standard in the United States. As of April 1, 2020, more ...