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Recent Building Energy Performance Standards Articles
Greenhouse Gas Data Must be Collected Beginning January 1 in Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-01-30T17:04:51-05:00Saturday, December 2nd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Building Energy Performance Standards, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, maryland department of environment, 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 ...
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 ...
Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-04-21T15:42:49-04:00Saturday, December 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Building Energy Performance Standards, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, IMT, Kaplow, preemption, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...