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New Environmental Laws from the 2025 Maryland General Assembly Session

This post is a compilation of environmental legislation enacted in the session.… Continue Reading

Berkeley’s Natural Gas Tax is a Warning to Building Owners Nationwide

By Stuart Kaplow on August 11, 2024 Posted in Uncategorized

Attempts to ban natural gas, be it by building codes, BEPS mandates, or the like, will all fail as preempted by Federal law and this new tactic of taxing fossil fuel out of existence is coming to a jurisdiction where you live or operate a business.… Continue Reading

Court Strikes Down Federal Dishwasher and Washing Machine Rules

By Stuart Kaplow on January 14, 2024 Posted in Uncategorized

No part of that text indicates Congress gave DOE power to regulate water use for energy-using appliances like dishwashers and washing machines… Continue Reading

More Than 1,000 Shipments of Solar Panels Seized at the Border

By Stuart Kaplow on April 30, 2023 Posted in Environmental, ESG, Federal, Solar Panel, Uncategorized

Businesses Creating a Slave Free World… Continue Reading

You can Participate in our Survey on GHG Emission Measurement

By Stuart Kaplow on February 5, 2023 Posted in ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Uncategorized

Our clients and other stakeholders can use these results as they make their company plans for GHG emission measurement, disclosure, and reduction in 2023… Continue Reading

First State to Authorize Use of the 2021 IgCC

By Stuart Kaplow on January 8, 2023 Posted in Environmental, GHG, IgCC, Uncategorized

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 … Continue Reading

The S in ESG may be the Most Impactful

By Stuart Kaplow on August 22, 2021 Posted in Environmental, ESG, Sustainability, Uncategorized

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (.. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that … Continue Reading

PFAS in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment?

By Stuart Kaplow on January 31, 2021 Posted in Codes and Regulations, Environmental, Uncategorized

The question de riguer in commercial real estate transactions is if PFAS is included in a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment? As made clear by the January 14, 2021 EPA action, the response is “no” that the standard practice for environmental site assessments in the vast majority of places does not consider PFAS, however, .. … Continue Reading

Green Building Contracts

By Chris Cheatham on February 6, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

If you are reading this blog, you most likely have an interest in the green building industry. Both opportunities and challenges are emerging at a rapid pace from the green building industry. As a construction attorney focused on the development of the green building industry, Chris Cheatham wants to assist your business to take advantage … Continue Reading

Green Building Law Update

Environmental Law and Sustainability for Business