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Recent Environmental Law Articles
Defense Contractor Prohibition on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-18T14:15:08-05:00Saturday, February 17th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Department of Defense, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Department of Defense contractors are not permitted to “disclose a greenhouse gas inventory or any other report on greenhouse gas emissions.” As governments across the United States are beginning to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, looking at the back story and teasing out the broad impact ...
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-10T20:56:10-05:00Saturday, February 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, hockey stick, Kaplow, Mark Steyn, Michael Mann, Rand Simberg, Stuart Kaplow|
Last Thursday, in a case filed in 2012 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a jury found that Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn defamed Michael Mann, awarding Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each and punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and ...
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|2024-02-11T20:43:30-05:00Tuesday, January 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, energy use intensity, EUI, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
On Monday, January 29, 2024, the Maryland legislature's Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review (AELR) put a “hold” on the proposed regulations to create the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) as required by the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022. A stated ...
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 ...
Federal Appeals Court Delivers Coup De Grace in Berkeley Attempt to Ban Natural Gas
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-26T18:11:34-04:00Saturday, January 6th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, BEPS, building energy performance standard, City of Berkeley, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, Court Saves Gas Stoves from the Government, EPCA, preemption|
After this article was posted, on March 22, 2024, the California Restaurant Association announced that the group and the City of Berkeley entered into a settlement agreement halting enforcement of the City’s ban on natural gas piping as the City Council takes steps to repeal ...