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Recent Environmental Law Articles
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, ...
Maryland Governor Mandates Climate Action by Executive Order
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-06-22T16:45:00-04:00Saturday, June 22nd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, maryland department of environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland's Climate Pollution Reduction Plan, Stuart Kaplow|
Earlier this month, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed an Executive Order leapfrogging Maryland to the front of all state climate efforts. No other government has enacted such a sweeping statewide green transition. The Maryland Governor’s June 4th, 2024, Executive Order 01.01.2024.19 is summarized below: Stated ...
Warning Labels on Gas Stoves?
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-06-17T07:21:01-04:00Saturday, June 15th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, gas stove, GE Appliances, Haier US, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow, U.S. PIRG|
A novel lawsuit is seeking to have a court order manufacturers to warn consumers that normal operation of its gas stoves produces air pollution at levels that can be harmful to human health. Last week the U.S. PIRG Education Fund filed a lawsuit in the District of ...