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LEED Commercial Interiors Can Save the Planet
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:11-05:00Sunday, September 17th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
LEED Commercial Interiors projects present the best single opportunity for greening buildings. The proof is in the numbers. There are more than 5.6 million existing commercial buildings in the United States today.
Denver Voters Petition Green Roof Mandate to the Ballot
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:10-05:00Sunday, September 10th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
The Denver Elections Commission has announced that the Denver Green Roof Initiative, a mandatory green roof ballot initiative will appear on the November 7 ballot. A ballot initiative is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can ...
Green Globes to be Approved in Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:09-05:00Sunday, August 27th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
Last week the Maryland Green Building Council voted unanimously to recommend that Green Globes, at the two Green Globes level, be approved by the Maryland Secretaries of Budget and Management and General Services as a “high performance building” as defined in Maryland law. The vote ...
Solar Panel Tariff Fight Makes Strange Bedfellows
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:08-05:00Sunday, August 20th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
The U.S. International Trade Commission held a nearly 10 hour initial public hearing this past Tuesday on a petition seeking tariffs and price minimums on low cost imported solar panels. The petition seeks duties of 40 cents per watt on imported solar cells and also ...
You Should Not Contract With Your Environmental Consultant
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:07-05:00Sunday, August 13th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
In an effort to mitigate risk you should not contract directly with an environmental consultant, but rather your attorney should contract with that consultant. While laws vary from state to state, in the vast majority of factual situations a business or property owner is ill ...
A Single Family Home in Maryland Cannot be Sold “As Is”
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:07-05:00Monday, July 24th, 2017|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The question this law firm is asked most often about single family home sales is whether or not a house can be sold “as is.” The answer since a dramatic change in Maryland law effective October 1, 2005, is “no” a single family home cannot ...
859 Maryland Liquor License Violations Reported
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:27-05:00Monday, July 24th, 2017|Categories: Land Use Law|
This blog post is a review of retail liquor license violations across Maryland during 2016. The twenty three counties in Maryland, Baltimore City, and the City of Annapolis issue retail alcoholic beverages licenses and local boards of liquor license commissioners police activities under those licenses.
Paint Companies Settle FTC Charges Over Deceptive Zero VOC Claims
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:06-05:00Saturday, July 22nd, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
Four paint companies have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceptively promoted products as containing zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or as emission free, including during and immediately after application. Some promotions also made explicit safety claims. Specifically, the first FTC complaint ...












