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Recent Building Energy Performance Standards Articles

7Sep, 2024

Comments on the 2024 Maryland BEPS Regulations

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

On September 6, 2024, the Maryland Department of the Environment issued a notice reproposing the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) aiming to implement a key provision of the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022. That is, the prior proposed 2023 BEPS regulations have been withdrawn, ...

2Dec, 2023

Greenhouse Gas Data Must be Collected Beginning January 1 in Maryland

By |Saturday, December 2nd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 ...

19Aug, 2023

Colorado Law Will Lead the Nation in Reducing GHGs from Buildings

By |Saturday, August 19th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

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 ...

10Dec, 2022

Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon

By |Saturday, December 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Businesses can and should treat this as the greatest responsibility and opportunity of our time. Literally resetting the trajectory of Maryland’s ...

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