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Eyeglasses in the Sights of Climate Change Activists
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-21T15:07:13-04:00Saturday, September 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: eyeglasses, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
In his recent video, “Can We Stop Global Warming?” Bill Gates provides us with an interesting, if not somewhat alarming, statistic, the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producing a single pair of eyeglasses amount to 8.2 pounds. This figure doesn’t include emissions from glasses ...
Howard County Residential Contract Required Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-14T18:14:02-04:00Saturday, September 14th, 2024|Categories: Real Estate Law|Tags: Howard County house contract, Howard County purchase agreement, Howard County residential contract, Maryland residential contract of sale, residential contract of sale Howard County|
The huge real estate industry wide changes that were effective August 17, 2024, literally rewriting the process of contracting for the sale and purchase of residential real estate across the U.S., do not change the legal requirements that those contracts include disclosures, notices, and other ...
Comments on the 2024 Maryland BEPS Regulations
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-14T10:24:31-05:00Saturday, September 7th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Building Energy Performance Standards, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental lawyer Maryland, EUI, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on January 13, 2025 citizen groups and business associations jointly filed suit in the U.S. District Court against the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment challenging the Maryland BEPS program as preempted by Federal statute and unenforceable as a ...
California to Delay Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-14T17:18:33-04:00Saturday, August 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Related Financial Risk, Corporate Data Accountability Act, environmental attorney Maryland, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SB 219, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on September 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 219 into law, making changes to California's climate accountability package enacted last year, as described below. In a move that signals a significant shift in the pace of climate reporting laws, ...
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 ...
Real Estate Contract Required Disclosures in Baltimore County
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-08-18T14:53:45-04:00Saturday, August 17th, 2024|Categories: Real Estate Law|Tags: baltimore county countract of sale, baltimore county house sale, contract disclsoure, contract of sale, Kaplow, maryland contract of sale, real estate commission, Realtor, Stuart Kaplow|
The dramatic changes last Saturday in contracting for residential real estate across the U.S. do not alter the requirements that those contracts of sale include disclosures, notices, and other provisions required by law. Anyone who thinks this is simply about reducing commissions paid to Realtors ...
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 ...