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Recent GHG Articles
Ban the Light Bulb to Repair the World
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-01-15T15:14:37-05:00Sunday, January 15th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: compact fluorescent, ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, LED, light bulb, Stuart Kaplow|
Last month the US Department of Energy, proposed stronger efficiency standards for light bulbs that will effectively phase out compact fluorescent light bulbs and what remnants of incandescent bulbs still remain, replacing them with more energy efficient LEDs. Concomitantly, with that proposed rule making, the ...
First State to Authorize Use of the 2021 IgCC
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-01-13T20:33:16-05:00Sunday, January 8th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2021 IgCC, environmental law, ESG, GHG, IgCC, Kaplow, net zero, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ...
Reducing GHG Aiming for Net Zero will be the Environmental Issue of 2023
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-01-01T15:20:58-05:00Sunday, January 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: decarbonize, environmental law, ESG, GHG, green building, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
Business owners increasingly understand the need to mitigate climate risk and many companies with forethought are already seizing upon the multi-trillion dollar economic opportunity that accompanies the economy’s transition to Net Zero. Disclosing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing GHG aiming for Net Zero is not ...
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 ...
Government Proposes Federal Contractors and Their Suppliers Disclose GHG Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-12-08T10:17:17-05:00Sunday, December 4th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The Federal government is proposing the Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule, which will require major Federal contractors publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate related financial risks and set emissions reduction targets. The implications of this reach far beyond only Federal contractors impacting ...
Net Zero Pledge Standards for Business released at COP27
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-26T22:11:40-05:00Saturday, November 26th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: COP27, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
Much has been written in the media about the just concluded UN Climate Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, most of it focusing on the agreement to agree on reparations or more correctly stated, on providing “loss and damage” funding in the future for vulnerable countries ...
Low Embodied Carbon Concrete is Here
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-20T18:04:07-05:00Sunday, November 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: embodied carbon, ESG, ESG law, GHG, Kaplow, low carbon concrete, low embodied carbon concrete, portland limestone cement, Stuart Kaplow, type 1L|
The golden opportunity in ESG may be in concrete. Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with materials’ manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal. In a building, there is “upfront” embodied carbon in construction and then operational carbon largely from energy consumption. Embodied ...
Scope 4 GHG Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-05T21:34:30-04:00Saturday, November 5th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, scope 4 GHG, Stuart Kaplow|
Scope 4 greenhouse gas emissions are not new. They date to 2013 when the Greenhouse Gas Protocol identified “avoided emissions” as emission reductions that occur outside of a product’s lifecycle or value chain, but as a result of the use of that product. It was actually ...