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Recent Maryland environmental lawyer Articles
Anatomy of an Executive Order: Stopping the Wind
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-25T21:08:52-05:00Saturday, January 25th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: drill baby drill, environmental attorney Maryland, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland Offshore Wind, offshore wind, offshore wind leasing, Stuart Kaplow|
Executive Orders are a vital mechanism for the President of the United States to manage the operations of the federal government. Since George Washington issued the first eight Executive Orders, more than 1,400 have been recorded. Every American President has issued at least one. Codified ...
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 ...
Net Zero Certification with GBI: A Path to Verified Sustainability
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-25T15:44:59-05:00Saturday, December 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental attorney Maryland, GBI, Green Building Initiative, Green Globes Journey to Net Zero, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
There is a good option for business and building owners pursuing Net Zero, the Green Building Initiative’s Green Globes Journey to Net Zero. We have blogged much in recent years about Net Zero including the perils of making Net Zero claims and we have been ...
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.” ...
Due Diligence Before Installing an EV Charging Station
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-28T17:00:13-05:00Saturday, December 7th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: electric vehicle charger, environmental attorney Maryland, EV charger, EV charging station, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
As electric vehicles (EVs) became increasingly popular in some locales, irrespective of the all but certain slowdown in the EVs market with the incoming Trump administration, some property owners continue exploring the installation of EV charging stations to attract tenants and visitors. EV charging station ...
PepsiCo Wins Dismissal of New York Greenwashing Lawsuit Alleging Plastic Pollution
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-12-12T12:07:34-05:00Saturday, November 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, greenwashing, greenwashing lawsuit, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, PepsiCo, plastic pollution, Stuart Kaplow|
After this blog was posted, on December 9, 2024, Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York filed a Notice Of Appeal of her office’s loss described below, to the Supreme Court of the State of New York. On October 31, PepsiCo ...
Maryland Government is Coming for Your Fossil Fuel Appliances – Again
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-28T17:12:01-05:00Saturday, November 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: clean heat standard, climate change, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, Stuart Kaplow, Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard|
Maryland is proposing to ban fossil fuel burning equipment in buildings (e.g., furnaces, boilers, water heaters, clothing dryers, etc.) with two new programs, a Clean Heat Standard and Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard. Flying in the face of what is being done elsewhere across the country ...
29 Billion Square Feet of LEED Certified Space and Counting
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-17T07:17:14-05:00Saturday, November 16th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: green building, Greenbuild, Kaplow, LEED, LEED v5, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland Green Building Council, Stuart Kaplow, US Green Building Council, USGBC|
Last Thursday, during the 2024 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the U.S. Green Building Council unveiled its Impact Report: Accelerating Green Building to Improve Lives and Livelihoods. This comprehensive review celebrates three decades of innovation in sustainable building with a current capstone of more than ...