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Recent BEPS Articles

13Jan, 2025

Citizens and Businesses Join Suing Maryland to Halt BEPS

By |Monday, January 13th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

21Dec, 2024

Net Zero Certification with GBI: A Path to Verified Sustainability

By |Saturday, December 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

There is a good option for business and building owners pursuing Net Zero, the Green Building Initiative’s Green Globes Journey to Net Zero. We have blogged much in recent years about Net Zero including the perils of making Net Zero claims and we have been ...

9Nov, 2024

Voters Save Gas Stoves from Government Ban Portending More ..

By |Saturday, November 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

While many Americans were focused on the presidential election last Tuesday, citizens from Washington State and others interested in energy were paying attention to a successful Washington voter initiative protecting access to natural gas for homes and businesses, including preventing regulatory actions to limit access ...

26Oct, 2024

Lawsuit Challenges D.C. Gas Appliance Ban and Net Zero Building Code

By |Saturday, October 26th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A lawsuit worthy of attention has been filed seeking to halt the implementation of Washington D.C.’s gas appliance ban and net zero building code. That complaint is nearly identical to the litigation commenced on the same day last week against Montgomery County, Maryland seeking to stop ...

7Sep, 2024

Comments on the 2024 Maryland BEPS Regulations

By |Saturday, September 7th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

After this was posted, on January 13, 2025 citizen groups and business associations jointly filed suit in the U.S. District Court against the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment challenging the Maryland BEPS program as preempted by Federal statute and unenforceable as a ...

31Aug, 2024

California to Delay Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting

By |Saturday, August 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

After this was posted, on September 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 219 into law, making changes to California's climate accountability package enacted last year, as described below. In a move that signals a significant shift in the pace of climate reporting laws, ...

10Aug, 2024

City Cannot Ban Natural Gas so it Will Tax it Out of Existence

By |Saturday, August 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

After this was posted, in the November 5th election, Berkeley, California, voters overwhelming defeated, with more than 68% of citizens voting against the citizen initiative Measure GG, The Large Buildings Fossil Fuel Emissions Tax, described below. After being told by the courts that its attempts ...

27Jul, 2024

New Draft Reproposed Maryland BEPS Regulations Require Net Zero by 2040

By |Saturday, July 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

After this blog was posted, Maryland published the Notice of Final Action for COMAR 26.28 Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS). The regulations described below will be final and effective on December 23, 2024. The Notice is available here. After this was posted, on September 6, 2024, the ...

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