Synthetic plastic microbeads are an effective mild abrasive ingredient appearing since the 1990s in personal care products including facial cleansers, shampoos, and toothpastes. Environmental interests have sought to ban microbeads contending the plastic microbeads (that look like tiny colorful dots), cannot be treated by conventional ...

At midnight on April 12, 2010, the Maryland General Assembly ended its 427th session with 810 bills having been approved of the 2,700 bills introduced. Only a very modest number of those bills advance green building or sustainable development. Despite only nascent interest by state ...

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The LEED water reduction prerequisite and credits provide an ideal tool for reducing water use.

Maryland has been a leader in the promotion of plug-in electric vehicles. In addition to federal government incentives, a total of 37 states and Washington, D.C. have created incentives for plug-in electric vehicles. While Maryland offers non-monetary incentives such as priority parking and high occupancy ...

Recognizing that while commercial construction is increasing building green, but that green residential construction lags in market share, local governments are increasingly looking to enact voluntary incentives to drive residential green building. At least 44 states and more than 400 local governments across the nation ...

Forget what you know about earth sciences and think law. By statute all solar panels are pervious in Maryland. Of course that doesn’t mean that rain actually passes through the solar panels or that in Maryland the panels are constructed to be any more permeable ...