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The Most Green Building Friendly Zoning Code in the Nation - Baltimore?

Green Building Law Update

Baltimore City is poised to adopt a new zoning code that is among the most ''green building friendly'' land use ordinances in the country. The Baltimore City Zoning Code was last comprehensively updated in 1971. · Community-based alternative energy systems are a permitted and conditional use in all zoning districts.

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Maryland Enacts New Environmental Laws in 2020

Green Building Law Update

SB 018 alters the membership of the 1994 Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission and changes and adds topics on which the commission may appoint a subcommittee. The bill also exempts specified public-private partnerships (P3s) formed for the generation of clean or renewable energy from the public service company franchise tax.

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Maryland Enacts New Environmental Laws in 2020

Green Building Law Update

SB 018 alters the membership of the 1994 Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission and changes and adds topics on which the commission may appoint a subcommittee. The bill also exempts specified public-private partnerships (P3s) formed for the generation of clean or renewable energy from the public service company franchise tax.

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

Green Building Law Update

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, most states have laws that preclude “community solar” projects. But community solar appears poised to shine brightly.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

However, local jurisdictions with general taxing powers ( e.g. , Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Montgomery County) have the authority to levy a bag fee on disposable plastic carryout bags that are clogging waterways, harming wildlife, and consuming valuable landfill space to discourage the use of disposable bags or to promote bag recycling.

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Maryland Vetoes Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Increase

Green Building Law Update

That rate does not include that at the time of the veto, pending before the Maryland Public Service Commission was a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Twenty years ago Maryland had among the least expensive price of electricity to the ultimate consumer in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors, but as of March 2016 at 14.3

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Maryland Vetoes Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Increase

Green Building Law Update

That rate does not include that at the time of the veto, pending before the Maryland Public Service Commission was a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Twenty years ago Maryland had among the least expensive price of electricity to the ultimate consumer in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors, but as of March 2016 at 14.3

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