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FERC Decision Puts State Renewable Portfolio Standards At Risk

Green Building Law Update

In a decision that critics have called “unprecedented” the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on December 19, 2019 issued an Order Establishing Just And Reasonable Rate “to protect the competitive capacity market administered by PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.” And, of course, the hodgepodge of other state laws would still be flawed.

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Maryland Enacts New Environmental Laws in 2020

Green Building Law Update

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. This bill is a ministerial response to the fact that in 2018 the State’s Building Codes Administration moved to the Department of Labor.

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Maryland Enacts New Environmental Laws in 2020

Green Building Law Update

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. This bill is a ministerial response to the fact that in 2018 the State’s Building Codes Administration moved to the Department of Labor. SB 420 / HB 581 is substantially the same as HB 619.

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Maryland Resets it Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law

Green Building Law Update

To accomplish this the bill advances everything from “food residuals” and organic materials diversion, a new environmental justice litmus test, a solar panel “recovery, reuse, and recycling working group,” an electric school bus mandate, recognizes “nuclear power” as a carbon free energy source, and much, much more. All of which is true, but.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) may adopt regulations to implement the bills. The Governor has until May 28, the 30th day after presentment to sign or veto bills. Clean Energy Jobs.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Delivering a reliable, quiet emergency power system for critical neonatal care

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Our engineering team worked with Kaiser Electric —the engineer of record on this project— to design, engineer and deliver an emergency power system for St. Meeting strict regulations: A standard part of our process. The NICU absolutely needed to be ready in January 2018.