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Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-12T18:51:07-05:00Saturday, February 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, hockey stick, Kaplow, Mark Steyn, Michael Mann, Rand Simberg, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted and following a protracted legal battle that lasted more than eight years, on January 8, 2025, the Washington D.C. court ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to pay National Review, which had been dismissed from the lawsuit (as described ...
France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-07T21:51:13-05:00Saturday, February 3rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The country that is home to some of the most iconic buildings erected by humankind, from the Eiffel Tower to the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Palace of Versailles is failing its current inhabitants and decimating residential real estate with deeply flawed greenhouse gas emissions ...
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 ...
National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-01-27T19:31:58-05:00Saturday, January 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Ali Zaidi, Energy Star NextGen, Kaplow, LEED Zero, net zero, scope 1 greenhouse gas, Stuart Kaplow, zero emission, zero emissions building|
You can provide feedback on the draft national definition for a Zero Emissions Building. The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, through the U.S. Department of Energy, is seeking “to create a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions building.” A broadly accepted common ...
Does evian Water Greenwash?
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-01-20T21:35:19-05:00Saturday, January 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon neutral, carbon neutrality, Carbon Trust, evian, green bleaching, green hushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, PAS 2060, Stuart Kaplow, sustainability law|
Last week United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Nelson Roman ruled that Danone Waters of America, the French multinational that produces evian bottled water, must face trial over greenwashing claims that it wrongly says on the label that the ...
Appeals Court Strikes Down Federal Dishwasher and Washing Machine Rules
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-01-14T14:50:17-05:00Saturday, January 13th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: dishwasher rule, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, EPCA, Kaplow, preemption, Stuart Kaplow, washing machine rule|
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down the Department of Energy’s dishwasher and washing machine rules saying they did not hold water. For the second time in as many weeks, we are writing about a court ruling new standards ...
Measuring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions will be “the” Environmental Issue of 2024
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-12-31T14:21:01-05:00Sunday, December 31st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, direct GHG emissions, food waste, GHG, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. This entirely new and emergent body of law in response to climate change is bursting onto the scene in 2024 and businesses are beginning to monetize it as a new revenue ...
Sustainability Triumphs: A 2023 Year in Review with an Eye Toward Decarbonizing
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-12-24T18:22:16-05:00Sunday, December 24th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2023 year in review, decarbonizing, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow, sustainability|
As we sing Auld Lang Syne to 2023, a pivotal year for global sustainability efforts, it's time to reflect on the strides made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in the realm of the built environment, all as described in our top 10 most read ...