Green Building Law Update

JULY 12, 2020

Understanding of the sources of lead in the environment and the pathways of human exposure is necessary to understand why what Maryland has done is revolutionary. Maryland is moving beyond those sources. Effective July 1, 2020, Maryland has imposed new lead (Pb) soil screening standards. And no amount of lead is safe.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2020

At a time when the building industry is principally concerned with the impact of COVID-19 and the luster is off green building, the Montgomery County Council last Tuesday unanimously approved legislation “to accelerate the construction of highly energy efficient buildings and green retrofitting of existing buildings.”.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 5, 2016

Maryland Governor Lawrence J. Specifically, Governor Hogan announced he was vetoing House Bill 1106 – Clean Energy Jobs – Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Revisions, as enacted in the just concluded 2016 Maryland General Assembly session. of their total electric supply into Maryland. This includes 12.7%

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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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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 5, 2016

Maryland Governor Lawrence J. Specifically, Governor Hogan announced he was vetoing House Bill 1106 – Clean Energy Jobs – Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Revisions, as enacted in the just concluded 2016 Maryland General Assembly session. of their total electric supply into Maryland. This includes 12.7%

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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

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 bird-friendly design standards that the Director adopts by regulation and that are equivalent to Pilot Credit #55.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

But the broad growth of green buildings, including green schools, that include water conservation strategies has the potential to negatively impact the quality of drinking water in those green building plumbing systems. So unless a school has its own water supply (and few do), schools are not a regulated public water system.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This evening an ordinance will be introduced in the Baltimore City Council to adopt the 2018 International Green Construction Code. In the realm of green building this is a big deal. In the more than 4,400 code adopting jurisdictions across the country only the town of Gaithersburg , Maryland has adopted the 2018 IgCC.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. This market driver is, of course, before any real ESG regulation in the U.S.”.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 17, 2015

Baltimore City adopted the International Green Construction Code 2012 as an overlay to the City’s building, fire and related codes effective April 1, 2015. Policy making public officials have described that when the triennial code revisions are adopted there will also be changes to the new Green Code.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The process of updating the 2012 International Green Construction Code has commenced. In fact, proposals for changes to the International Code Council’s “Green Construction Code” have been accepted since November and are due not later than January 10, 2014. And significantly, ASHRAE Standard 189.1

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 1, 2015

The Maryland legislature passed and last month Governor Larry Hogan signed into law House Bill 216 , now enrolled as Chapter 409, prohibiting the manufacture of a personal care product containing “synthetic plastic microbeads,” beginning December 31, 2017, and the sale of such a product beginning December 31, 2018.

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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.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 29, 2021

We are regularly asked if there is a checklist for ESG compliance and while there is not, with promised federal regulations not yet promulgated, there is good guidance available. A number of examples of race neutral measures that promote corporate diversity already exist.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (. and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 12, 2014

if green building is going to mitigate the negative impacts that human activity has on the planet, green building must include houses. Preparations for the development of the 2015 version of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard are underway and there are opportunities for you to participate. For details and to RSVP.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 4, 2021

With that wide public sentiment for fireworks, there is actually almost no environmental regulation for the setting off of millions of little explosions of the more than 99% of fireworks imported from China. But, San Diego does regulate fireworks for locations near the coast, requiring expensive permits (.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 22, 2014

This evening an ordinance will be introduced in the Baltimore City Council for the purpose of adopting the International Green Construction Code. So, while it was controversial in 2007 when Baltimore mandating that privately owned building must be constructed green, Bill No. 14-0413 sponsored by Councilman James B.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 30, 2021

To work toward long term solutions, we counsel clients to be active participants in efforts with regulators to help develop useful ESG disclosure guidance in their industry. In 2021, EU based regulators began to fill the ESG disclosure void, but with the change in political climate in the U.S., If each country (. If each country (.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

It is important to accept that EPA’s authority to regulate recycling is fuzzy at best, beyond the agency’s implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. What may be called for is a better approach to resource use and operation of buildings. Most solid waste collection in the U.S. is at the municipal level.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

All these years later, Maryland now joins a majority of other states and adopted the Daubert reliability factors, overruling Frye. In place of Frye , the Supreme Court provided a list of flexible factors to help courts determine the reliability of expert testimony.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 25, 2021

The 442nd session of the Maryland legislature adjourned on April 12, 2021. Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 31, 2021

Additionally, there are a limited number of places where PFAS is regulated as state hazardous substance, like Michigan where should likely be included in a Phase I. 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

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Motivations vary from concerns over global warming to increasing energy independence, and hedging against rising fuel costs to because it is chick to be green. 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

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a regulation to finally resolve and codify the legal principal that an incidental bird take resulting from an otherwise lawful activity, for example a sparrows flies into a solar panel, is not prohibited under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Three weeks ago the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. Potable water use reduction may be the most important ESG factor.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Do you believe there will be mandatory ESG disclosures and more ESG regulation within the next 12 months?

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 25, 2021

Some believe this tying the consideration to “current” standards, as opposed to the regulator determination at the time the tank was closed, creates a Faustian bargain for the environmental professional, and will greatly limit the supremely valuable designation of HRECS. This new text only exacerbates a prior bad word choice.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 2, 2022

Still with almost no regulation, funds that elect to focus on companies’ ESG practices may have broad discretion in how they apply ESG factors to their investments. The Department of Labor published a proposed rule in November removing barriers to the use of ESG factors, which regulation will be final in 2022.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

During the 2019 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly enacted what will be the first statewide ban of expanded polystyrene foam. But maybe not in Maryland? Maryland politicians should not be criticized because this new law will no doubt be popular in the very progressive Maryland.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

13, 2020, Labor published a final rule on “ Financial Factors in Selecting Plan Investments ,” which adopted amendments to the “Investment Duties” regulation under Title I of ERISA. By way of background, on Nov.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 30, 2022

In the most compelling response, 86% believe there will be mandatory ESG disclosures and more ESG regulation within the next 12 months. Particularly forward thinking and looking for certainty, 62% favor mandatory ESG disclosures and more ESG regulation within the next 12 months.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Other green building programs have similar targets. But little of this including lead is regulated. Lead is regulated in public drinking water supplies under SDWA, a federal law that was initially passed in 1974. There are externalities associated with water age, including that a disinfectant residual (e.g.,

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Construction Junkie

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Wood, a notoriously opaque substance, has apparently been resting on its laurels for far too long and not reaching its full potential, a team of researchers from Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), the University of Maryland, and the University of Colorado believes.

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