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Recent Maryland BEPS Articles
The Most Consequential Day of Environmental Deregulation in American History
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-15T19:03:46-04:00Saturday, March 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Energy Star, environmental attorney Maryland, EPA, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Lee Zeldin, Maryland BEPS, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced last Thursday, “Yesterday was the most consequential day of deregulation in American history. Alongside President Trump, we announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will take 31 actions to advance his day-one executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” I ...
States Challenge Validity of New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-08T17:22:26-05:00Saturday, March 8th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, climate change, Climate Change Superfund Act, environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow|
The recent enactment of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York has set the stage for a significant legal battle over the scope of state authority to impose financial responsibility for purported climate related damages. The outcome of this litigation could have far reaching ...
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 ...
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 ...
Top 10 (or 12!) List of Environmental Blog Posts
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-30T13:48:18-05:00Saturday, December 28th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: clean heat standard, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow, zero emission heating equipment|
As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the environmental matters that dominated the year, those that captured attention, sparked debate, and influenced the trajectory of environmental policy and innovation. In the spirit of David Letterman’s iconic countdowns, we present a Top ...
Heat Pump Shipments are Down this Year for Good Reason
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-14T22:18:53-05:00Saturday, December 14th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, heat pump, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
Despite generous incentives from the Biden administration residential heat pump shipments are down this year. A leading daily American newspaper reported in a front page story “heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and stalled in Europe.” ...
Lawsuit Challenges D.C. Gas Appliance Ban and Net Zero Building Code
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-27T13:24:45-04:00Saturday, October 26th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all elctric building, BEPS, Bill 13-22, Clean Energy DC Building Code Amendment Act of 2022, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, EPCA, gas appliance ban, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, National Apartment Association, National Association of Home Builders, preemption, Restaurant Law Center, Stuart Kaplow, Washington Gas Light Company|
A lawsuit worthy of attention has been filed seeking to halt the implementation of Washington D.C.’s gas appliance ban and net zero building code. That complaint is nearly identical to the litigation commenced on the same day last week against Montgomery County, Maryland seeking to stop ...
Federal Court Reinstates Greenwashing Case Over Aspirational Statements
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-12T19:34:57-04:00Saturday, October 12th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: DC Consumer Protection Procedures Act, Earth Island Institute, Earth Island Institute v. The Coca-Cola Company, greenwashing, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Stuart Kaplow|
A recent ruling from a federal appellate court is bringing new attention to claims of greenwashing including specifically that a business’s aspiration statements about environmental matters (e.g., “we will be net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or “we will use at least 50% recycled ...