When the 2008 session of the Maryland General Assembly came to a close on April 7th, among the 747 bills enacted was relatively little Green or environmental legislation. Among the enactments was House Bill 377, an Administration bill increasing grant amounts under the existing Solar ...

The Internal Revenue Service last week released Notice 2008-40 which provides guidance on the process that allows a taxpayer who owns a commercial building and makes improvements "as part of the building's interior lighting systems; heating, cooling, ventilation, and hot water systems; or building envelope" ...

Baltimore County, Maryland, one of the first local governments in the nation to offer the incentive of a property tax credit for Green Building in early 2006, has expanded that tax credit to include renovation of existing buildings and core and shell construction. Green Building ...

Baltimore City has enacted a mandatory Green Buildings Law requiring that nearly all newly constructed buildings achieve specified high standards for energy efficiency and environmental design. Last Friday the United Nations panel on climate change declared “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” Last Thursday, ...

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 ...