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Recent BEPS Articles
Colorado Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) Laws Challenged
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-05-04T19:38:31-04:00Saturday, May 4th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, Energize Denver Ordinance, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Regulation 28, Stuart Kaplow|
Two Colorado Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) laws were challenged last week in a much anticipated lawsuit commenced in the United States District Court for Colorado. The lawsuit mirrors a successful ‘substantially similar’ federal court ruling last year that voided a natural gas ban in ...
New Environmental Laws from the 2024 Maryland Legislative Session
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-03T08:00:13-04:00Saturday, April 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental attorney Maryland, environmental laws Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental law, Maryland environmental lawyer, SB 1, Stuart Kaplow|
The 446th session of the Maryland General Assembly concluded on April 8, 2024. With 1,052 bills and one resolution passed by the legislature, the governor has already signed 120 bills into law and has until May 28 to sign or veto the remainder of the ...
Settlement Portends Broad Failure in Attempts to Ban Natural Gas
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-31T16:14:24-04:00Saturday, March 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, BEPS, building energy performance standard, California Restaurant Association, City of Berkeley, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, EPCA, Kaplow, natural gas, preemption, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
The City of Berkeley is going to repeal its regulation that prohibits the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings. Last week the California Restaurant Association announced that the group and the City of Berkeley entered into a settlement agreement immediately halting enforcement ...
Defense Contractor Prohibition on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-18T14:15:08-05:00Saturday, February 17th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Department of Defense, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Department of Defense contractors are not permitted to “disclose a greenhouse gas inventory or any other report on greenhouse gas emissions.” As governments across the United States are beginning to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, looking at the back story and teasing out the broad impact ...
France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-07T21:51:13-05:00Saturday, February 3rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The country that is home to some of the most iconic buildings erected by humankind, from the Eiffel Tower to the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Palace of Versailles is failing its current inhabitants and decimating residential real estate with deeply flawed greenhouse gas emissions ...
BEPS on Hold in Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-14T10:26:36-05:00Tuesday, January 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, energy use intensity, EUI, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
Federal Appeals Court Delivers Coup De Grace in Berkeley Attempt to Ban Natural Gas
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-26T18:11:34-04:00Saturday, January 6th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, BEPS, building energy performance standard, City of Berkeley, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, Court Saves Gas Stoves from the Government, EPCA, preemption|
After this article was posted, on March 22, 2024, the California Restaurant Association announced that the group and the City of Berkeley entered into a settlement agreement halting enforcement of the City’s ban on natural gas piping as the City Council takes steps to repeal ...
Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards Effective January 1
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-01-30T17:03:41-05:00Saturday, December 9th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, direct GHG emissions, GHG, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
On January 29, 2024, after this article was posted, the Maryland legislature's Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review (AELR) put a “hold” on the proposed regulations to create the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) as required by the Climate Solutions Now Act ...