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Recent BEPS Articles
Court Indefinitely Pauses SEC Climate Rule Litigation
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-05-18T17:11:52-04:00Saturday, May 17th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Iowa v. SEC, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Motion to Hold Case in Abeyance, Stuart Kaplow|
In a striking development with far reaching implications, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has granted the Motion to Hold Case in Abeyance in the consolidated litigation Iowa v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the lead challenge to the SEC’s 2024 climate ...
BEPS Redux: The Most Far Reaching Environmental Legislation of the 2025 Maryland General Assembly
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-05-23T21:31:22-04:00Saturday, May 3rd, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, decarbonization, Energy Star, environmental lawyer Maryland, HB 49, House Bill 49, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental attorney, MDE, Portfolio Manager, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on May 20, 2025, House Bill 49 became law without the Governor’s signature. This may be the first instance in modern times that a Maryland governor did not sign an enacted bill introduced at the request of that governor. There is ...
New Environmental Laws from the 2025 Maryland Legislative Session
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-05-23T16:41:54-04:00Saturday, April 26th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, energy use intensity, environmental lawyer Maryland, EUI, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Maryland General Assembly, SB 149, Stuart Kaplow, vetoed|
After this blog was posted, on September 16, 2025, Governor Wes Moore announced that he was vetoing 23 bills including those indicated below. The 447th session of the Maryland General Assembly concluded on April 7, 2025. A total of 878 bills passed both chambers. The ...
President Trump’s Bold Step to Rein in State Overreach in Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-04-19T18:02:55-04:00Saturday, April 12th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, climate change, environmental attorney Maryland, Executive Order, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Responding to Emergency Needs to Extreme Weather Act, Stuart Kaplow|
On April 8, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a powerful and consequential Executive Order with the innocuous sounding title, “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach.” The impact of that Executive Order will be far broader than the title belies when it targets “burdensome and ...
Mandatory GHG Disclosures in Maryland Real Estate Contracts
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-04-05T17:31:05-04:00Saturday, April 5th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental attorney Maryland, GHG disclosures, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland real estate contracts, Stuart Kaplow|
Maryland law now requires specified greenhouse gas emissions disclosures and exchange of performance data in a contract of sale for buildings subject to the state’s Building Energy Performance Standards. Failure to comply with the regulation can have significant financial and legal consequences. Maryland has quietly ...
NYC Building Electrification Ruling is Interesting But Not a Game Changer
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-29T19:05:33-04:00Saturday, March 29th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental lawyer Maryland, EPCA, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Local Law 154, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Ronnie Abrams, Stuart Kaplow|
On March 18, 2025, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York handed down a ruling in Association of Contracting Plumbers of the City of New York, Inc. et al. v. City of New York, dismissing a challenge to New York City’s Local ...
States Challenge Validity of New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-08T17:22:26-05:00Saturday, March 8th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, climate change, Climate Change Superfund Act, environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow|
The recent enactment of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York has set the stage for a significant legal battle over the scope of state authority to impose financial responsibility for purported climate related damages. The outcome of this litigation could have far reaching ...
Citizens and Businesses Join Suing Maryland to Halt BEPS
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-15T11:41:35-05:00Monday, January 13th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 1:25-cv-113, BEPS, building energy performance standard, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, EPCA, EUI, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland Building Industry Association, Serena Coleman McIlwain, Stuart Kaplow|
Earlier today citizen groups representing the interests of thousands of residents and business associations with thousands of members filed suit in the U.S. District Court against the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment challenging the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) program as ...