![Avada law]({"default":{"normal":{"url":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Header.png","id":"1308","height":"43","width":"180","thumbnail":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Header-150x43.png"},"retina":{"url":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Retina.png","id":"1309","height":"77","width":"320","thumbnail":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Retina-150x77.png"}},"sticky":{"normal":{"url":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Header.png","id":"1308","height":"43","width":"180","thumbnail":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Header-150x43.png"},"retina":{"url":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Retina.png","id":"1309","height":"77","width":"320","thumbnail":"https:\/\/stuartkaplow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SK-Logo-Square-Retina-150x77.png"}},"mobile":{"normal":{"url":"","id":"","height":"","width":"","thumbnail":""},"retina":{"url":"","id":"","height":"","width":"","thumbnail":""}}} "Green Building May Be Our Best Hope To Repair The Planet 1"){kind=logo}
View by Topic
Recent Articles
-
Net Zero Certification with GBI: A Path to Verified SustainabilitySaturday, December 21st, 2024 -
Heat Pump Shipments are Down this Year for Good ReasonSaturday, December 14th, 2024 -
Due Diligence Before Installing an EV Charging StationSaturday, December 7th, 2024 -
PepsiCo Wins Dismissal of New York Greenwashing Lawsuit Alleging Plastic PollutionSaturday, November 30th, 2024 -
Maryland Government is Coming for Your Fossil Fuel Appliances – AgainSaturday, November 23rd, 2024
View by Month/Year
“Green Building Law Update” Headlines
Recent Articles & News from
Stuart Kaplow’s blog
at GreenBuildingLawUpdate.com
- Net Zero with GBI: A Path to Verified Sustainability December 22, 2024
- Heat Pump Shipments Are Declining Precipitously December 15, 2024
- Key Considerations Before Installing an EV Charging Station December 8, 2024
- Greenwashing Lawsuit Alleging Plastic Pollution by PepsiCo is Dismissed December 2, 2024
Subscribe to the Green Building Law Update!
Stuart Kaplow brings his expertise and extensive experience to the table with his unique digital publication, "Green Building Law Update". Subscribers receive regular updates to keep them informed about important issues surrounding Environmental Law, Green Building & Real Estate Law, as well as the emerging demand for Environmental Social Governance (ESG).
Get fresh content through the lense of Stuart Kaplow's cutting-edge expertise, innovative commentary and insider perspective. Don't miss another issue! Subscribe below.
Recent Legal Library Articles
Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-15T17:45:37-04:00Saturday, October 7th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "planet is fine", "planet is going to be fine", clean drinking water, esg legal solutions, global warming, green building, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The de riguer environmental imperative of responding to the immediate threat of global warming through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to the detriment of other environmental impacts, is simply taking one environmental impact too far. This is not my perspective alone. Most people identify “clean drinking ...
White House to Define Zero Emission Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-01T21:04:42-04:00Sunday, October 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Ali Zaidi, Kaplow, LEED, net zero, Stuart Kaplow, zero emission, zero emission building|
Last Thursday, White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi announced that the federal government will define what is a “zero emission” building. The announcement was made at the U.S. Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild conference and expo in Washington DC, in a live on stage ...
Unplugged Truth: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Charging Your Smartphone
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-09-23T19:49:32-04:00Saturday, September 23rd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon dioxide, decarbonize, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
At a time when government is mandating building owners drastically reduce GHG emissions and plug loads account for as much as 50% of energy consumption in offices, when building occupants are put on an energy diet will charging smartphones be banned from the office? Which ...
California Passes Groundbreaking Climate Disclosure Bills
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-08T21:49:02-04:00Saturday, September 16th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: California Corporate Data Accountability Act, GHG, Greenhouse Gases Climate Related Financial Risk Reporting, Kaplow, sb 253, SB 261, scope 3, Stuart Kaplow|
On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed both SB 253 and SB 261, the two bills described in this article, issuing signing memoranda for each that are available from the links above. In what has been characterized as a win for the planet but ...
Navigating the Urban Landscape: London’s Low Emission Zone vs. NYC Congestion Pricing
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-06-25T21:46:14-04:00Sunday, September 10th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: congestion pricing, ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, London low emission zone, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on June 15, 2024, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board announced it was going to bow to New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to pause congestion pricing. In an era where climate concerns including greenhouse gas emissions from cars are at the ...
US Imposes Duties on Southeast Asia Solar Panel Makers Evading China Tariffs
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-09-03T17:51:08-04:00Sunday, September 3rd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Kaplow, solar panel, Stuart Kaplow, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act|
On August 18, 2023, the United States government announced that solar panels, cells, and modules completed in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, or Vietnam using components from China and exported to the U.S., are circumventing the more than decade old antidumping tariffs on solar panels from China. ...
Launch of the Nature Crime Alliance
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-26T22:24:16-04:00Saturday, August 26th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: biodiversity degradation, ESG, illegal logging, Kaplow, modern slavery, Nature Crime Alliance, Stuart Kaplow, sustainability law|
Last week saw the launch of the Nature Crime Alliance, a new, multi sector approach to fighting criminal forms of logging, mining, wildlife trade, land conversion, crimes associated with fishing, and the illegal activities with which they converge. The Alliance is significant because this is ...
Colorado Law Will Lead the Nation in Reducing GHGs from Buildings
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-19T21:12:03-04:00Saturday, August 19th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: building energy performance standard, Building Energy Performance Standards, Energize Denver, GHG, HB 1286|
Last week, Colorado established mandatory energy performance standards for large buildings. Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly ...