Howard County, Maryland is becoming a national leader in Green Building, transforming the local real estate industry with "mandatory" energy efficiency and environmental design standards. Green Building has created quite the buzz. Everyone is talking about it – from Wired magazine, to Elle, to Vanity ...

Baltimore County, Maryland has become one of the first jurisdictions in the nation to enact a property tax credit for Green Building. This voluntary incentive offered by a local government is on the cutting edge of addressing climate change while leading environmentalism out of the ...

In a little noticed initiative, Maryland joined governments across the planet tackling global warming by adopting a ‘mandatory’ carbon dioxide emission reduction program. There will be winners and losers among different sectors in the economy as this program begins implementation on January 1, 2009 and ...

“A well-documented rise in global temperatures has coincided with a significant increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Respected scientists believe the two trends are related. For when carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, it acts like the ceiling of a ...

As we approach Earth Day on April 22nd, it is a good time to consider the state of Green Building in Maryland. Global Warming is the Issue of the Day It is hip to be green. The phrase ‘global warming’ first appeared in print in ...

Green Buildings are beginning to be environmentally sound investments as government provides the necessary incentives to advance the wider use of alternative “green” methods, buying down slightly higher up front construction costs that are often, again over time, recouped in reduced operating costs and additionally ...

EPA has, at long last, established regulatory standards and practices for evaluating a property’s environmental conditions necessary to qualify for certain landowner liability protections under the Superfund law and, as such, it is now time to modify the scope of future Phase I Environmental Site ...

Maryland law has significantly changed the obligations of an owner of residential rental property, including expanding the duties of disclosure of lead based paint when the landlord files a complaint in District Court for failure to pay rent. Background In 1994, Maryland established the Lead ...