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New Environmental Laws from the 2025 Maryland Legislative Session
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-04-26T14:57:03-04:00Saturday, 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|
The 447th session of the Maryland General Assembly concluded on April 7, 2025. A total of 878 bills passed both chambers. The governor has already signed 230 of these bills into law and has until May 27 to sign or veto the rest. The annual ...
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 ...
Comments on the 2024 Maryland BEPS Regulations
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-14T10:24:31-05:00Saturday, September 7th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Building Energy Performance Standards, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental lawyer Maryland, EUI, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, 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 ...
New Draft Reproposed Maryland BEPS Regulations Require Net Zero by 2040
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-19T18:32:34-05:00Saturday, July 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, energy use intensity, EUI, Executive Order 01.01.2024.19, GHG, greenhouse gas, Maryland BEPS, net direct greenhouse gas|
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 ...
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 ...