Green Building Law Update

APRIL 28, 2019

The Maryland General Assembly, the state’s legislative body meets in regular session for 90 days each year beginning the second Wednesday in January to act on more than 2,500 pieces of legislation. Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 5, 2019

Last week the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state’s intermediate appellate court, overturned an earlier circuit court decision, reinstating a Montgomery County ordinance significantly restricting pesticide use throughout the County. Montgomery County, Maryland v. In October 2015, the Montgomery County Council enacted Bill No.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 30, 2015

By statute all solar panels are pervious in Maryland. Of course that doesn’t mean that rain actually passes through the solar panels or that in Maryland the panels are constructed to be any more permeable than elsewhere. Unfortunately, the law to date has had little, if any, effect in Maryland.

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ENR Construction

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Maryland attorney general’s office has called into question the state’s permitting for the planned East Coast Hyper­loop project, sited near Baltimore.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2020

Howard County, Maryland has become the first jurisdiction in the state and one of few places in the country to pass a mandatory “bird-friendly design” law for new construction of privately owned buildings. The County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits statistics indicate it would apply to less than 1% of permits issued each year.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The plaintiff is the municipal government of Baltimore, Maryland. Like a number of other state and local governments, Baltimore City filed this action against energy companies in Maryland state court, seeking to recover damages under state law for harms that it claims it has sustained and will sustain due to global climate change.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 2, 2023

New Maryland Gov. GW, as developing US clean energy sector aims to move queued projects past permitting, financial, labor and supply chain hurdles. Wes Moore touts big boost in the state deployment goal to 8.5

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 26, 2020

In an instructive environmental law decision last week, the U.S.

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Construction Dive

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Following a child's electrical shock from faulty wiring installation, officials have been looking for errors in the design, permitting, construction and inspection processes and for indications of public corruption.

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Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

T he Maryland state legislature has allocated $7.5 million to the University of Maryland to create a green energy research center. The goal of the Green Energy Institute—a collaboration between the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) at the A. From the September/October 2017 Issue. Larry Hogan, with Lt.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Green building will remain mandatory for new construction in Montgomery County, Maryland and effective December 1, 2017, the International Green Construction Code 2012 will be a permitted alternative. Maryland is expected to approve the IgCC 2015 early next year when it approves the 2018 version of the other I codes.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 11, 2015

Maryland has been a leader in the promotion of plug-in electric vehicles. Maryland residents may be eligible for a one time excise tax credit, up to $3,000.00, when they purchase or lease a qualifying plug-in electric vehicle through June 30, 2017. In addition to federal government incentives, a total of 37 states and Washington, D.C.

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ENR Construction

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Construction of transportation guru Elon Musk’s planned New York-to-Washington hyperloop transit system could get its start in Maryland, following the state’s Oct. 19 grant of a conditional utility permit to build a 10.3-mile mile tunnel near Baltimore, but Musk’s construction firm, The Boring Co.,

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS. Selling a House with Solar Panels is Fraught with Peril. I Just Read my 1000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment this Year. 2018 IgCC Poised to be Adopted for the First Time. 179D Tax Deduction Allocated from Government Buildings.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

A package of local government bills introduced on January 29th aim to ensure that Montgomery County, Maryland remains at the sustainability forefront. Bill 10-14 would require the County to implement an expedited review process for permits to install rooftop solar photovoltaic systems and charge reduced fees for those permits.

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Construction Equipment

JANUARY 17, 2018

Last October, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) granted Elon Musk a conditional utility permit that would allow Musk's Boring Company to begin work on Musk's proposed high-speed Hyperloop system beneath the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 23, 2016

On September 28, 2016, the County Executive of Montgomery County, Maryland submitted Executive Regulation 21-15, which adopts the International Green Construction Code 2012, to the County Council. If the Council does not approve or disapprove the proposed IgCC within 60 days after receiving it, the green code is automatically approved.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Montgomery County, Maryland has proposed adopting the International Green Construction Code 2012. Montgomery County is not only the most populous county in Maryland, it is one of the most environmentally progressive jurisdictions in the nation. The ramifications have national import.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In the more than 4,400 code adopting jurisdictions across the country only the town of Gaithersburg , Maryland has adopted the 2018 IgCC. In the realm of green building this is a big deal.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 20, 2021

The Act makes it criminal to discharge matter of any kind into the navigable waters, or tributaries thereof, of the United States without a permit. The Act also makes it a misdemeanor to excavate, fill, or alter the course, condition, or capacity of any port, harbor, channel, or other areas within the reach of the Act without a permit.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 31, 2021

And there is at least one place where there appears to be a complete disconnect, as I described last year in a post, Maryland the First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 29, 2016

All building permit applications, including for alterations to the city’s iconic Muscle Beach, will now be subject to these local amendments, which include: All new one and two family dwellings are required to install a solar electric photovoltaic system with a minimum total wattage 1.5

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 22, 2014

The Maryland legislature enacted enabling legislation permitting local governments to adopt the IgCC in 2011 and Baltimore will be the first to do so. Although as this bill is introduced, Montgomery County, Maryland is preparing legislation to repeal its existing LEED centric mandate replacing it with the IgCC. compliant.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 31, 2016

The City of Rockville, Maryland has adopted the International Green Construction Code 2012 as mandatory for all commercial and multi family building. city with a population below 100,000 and Rockville is in Maryland, ranked number 2 among all states for LEED building per capita. or the National Green Building Standard (ICC 700-2012).

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Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 25, 2015

That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 29, 2016

All building permit applications, including for alterations to the city’s iconic Muscle Beach, will now be subject to these local amendments, which include: All new one and two family dwellings are required to install a solar electric photovoltaic system with a minimum total wattage 1.5

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Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Maryland OSHA (MOSH) is one of the “state plan” states that administer their own “mini-OSHA.” But because asbestos protective clothing that is improperly maintained can expose employees to that hazard, Maryland has banned employers from buying, using, requiring a worker to use or even keeping any asbestos clothing at a place of employment.

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ENR Construction

JULY 15, 2014

Early-stage construction of an incinerator and powerplant project near Baltimore is at a standstill after the Maryland Dept. of the Environment issued a stop-work order over emissions reductions credits (ERC) needed to comply with restrictions on its air quality permit. Infrastructure'

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

EPA generally does not permit the installation of used catalytic converters , so it is clear they are being stolen for recycling of the rare earth metals. because the gasoline engine does not run fulltime so the metals in the pollution control device last longer, but also because it is easy to separate from the vehicle.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 4, 2021

In many locales individual fireworks displays do not even require a permit. But, San Diego does regulate fireworks for locations near the coast, requiring expensive permits (. 49 states plus DC allow some or all types of consumer fireworks (.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 8, 2018

Two bills pending in the Montgomery County Council aim to increase the use of renewable energy in the suburban Maryland County. It would also authorize the Director of the Department of Permitting Services to approve a full or partial waiver. If neither solar nor vegetative, then a heat reducing reflective roof must be installed.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 17, 2015

Until that not yet determined date, projects may utilize the new Green Code, but significantly, the Code official will accept new registration for the Baltimore City Green Building Standard which projects when registered by that date will be permitted to proceed under that Standard.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 9, 2020

Montgomery County, Maryland is on the cusp of being the first to adopt the 2018 International Green Construction Code. Since 2017, the 2012 IgCC has been permitted in the County as an alternative to mandatory LEED building. The proposed Executive Regulation 12-20 appeared in the Montgomery County Register on August 1.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 23, 2014

The amount of the exemption permitted varies by year and by the certification level achieved. Susan Dorn, general counsel of the USGBC, Abbey Hopper, director of the Maryland Energy Administration, and others will be presenting with me. All are invited to the symposium “Can Green Building Law Save The Planet?”

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 5, 2020

And significantly there is no defense for an issued permit or claim of preemption by other state or federal laws. Under the amended City charter, the Lake Erie ecosystem may enforce its rights through an action prosecuted by the City or any resident in the name of the ecosystem.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 2, 2015

That Executive Order, having the import of not permitting use of LEED on Georgia state funded building, remains in place in Georgia.

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