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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 ...
SEC Reverses Course on Defending its Climate Related Disclosure Rule
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-27T20:21:41-04:00Saturday, February 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental attorney Maryland, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SEC Disclosure Related to Climate Change, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
After this was posted, on March 27, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate related risks and greenhouse gas emissions. SEC staff sent a letter to the court stating that the Commission withdraws ...
The Change in Administration will be “the” Environmental Issue of 2025
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-06T07:15:08-05:00Saturday, January 4th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, environmental law, GHG emission, green building attorney, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Lee Zeldin, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, offshore wind, Stuart Kaplow|
It will surprise no one that U.S. environmental and energy public policy will change dramatically in 2025. Donald Trump was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 2024, even before his inauguration as the 47th President. This is much more than only shrinking the EPA ...
Eyeglasses in the Sights of Climate Change Activists
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-21T15:07:13-04:00Saturday, September 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: eyeglasses, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
In his recent video, “Can We Stop Global Warming?” Bill Gates provides us with an interesting, if not somewhat alarming, statistic, the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producing a single pair of eyeglasses amount to 8.2 pounds. This figure doesn’t include emissions from glasses ...
California to Delay Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-14T17:18:33-04:00Saturday, August 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Related Financial Risk, Corporate Data Accountability Act, environmental attorney Maryland, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SB 219, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on September 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 219 into law, making changes to California's climate accountability package enacted last year, as described below. In a move that signals a significant shift in the pace of climate reporting laws, ...
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 ...
How Garbage Disposals Fight Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-21T18:34:05-04:00Saturday, July 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: compost, elastocaloric cooling, food waste, garbage disposal, geoengineering, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, methane, Stuart Kaplow|
In our daily efforts to lead eco friendly lives, we often overlook a humble but powerful tool right in our kitchens, the in sink garbage disposal. It is sad but there is no dispute that more than one third of the food produced in the ...
SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Stay and Venue Now in the 8th Circuit
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-05T06:51:55-04:00Saturday, March 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
After this article was posted, on April 4, 2024, the SEC, noting that it has discretion to stay its rules pending judicial review if it finds that “justice so requires,” determined to exercise its discretion to stay the Final Rule pending the completion of judicial ...