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Recent Legal Library Articles
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 ...
A Force Majeure Decision during the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:15-05:00Sunday, July 5th, 2020|Categories: Real Estate Law|
There has been much speculation and supposition about the interplay of force majeure provisions in leases and other contracts in response to government orders closing businesses during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but now there is an authoritative court decision that may provide persuasive ...
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 Maryland Real Estate Laws from the 2020 General Assembly Session
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:14-05:00Sunday, June 7th, 2020|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The 71 day session of the Maryland General Assembly was for the first time since the Civil War cut short from the prescribed 90 days (.. of note, the legislature has met for 90 days since the predecessor, appointed not elected, General Assembly of Maryland ...
COVID 19 Commercial Building Liability
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:13-05:00Monday, May 25th, 2020|Categories: Real Estate Law|
With all 50 states now in some stage of reopening and some reclosing in part from the novel coronavirus pandemic closures and more than 1,500 new statutes, regulations and executive orders addressing the pandemic having been enacted in a matter of weeks, many commercial real ...
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 ...