Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. While several cities and local jurisdictions have similar enactments, Maryland has the only other statewide GHG emission reduction law.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing these issues will be at the forefront for various government entities in 2024. The regulatory impact of PFAS on otherwise closed sites is also a challenge for the regulated community, including real estate owners and operators. Supreme Court ruling in Sackett v.

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Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2021

For instance, real estate developers have claimed that land use and zoning regulations that seek to reduce exposure to climate change impacts constitute regulatory takings. And property owners adversely impacted by climate-related flood control measures have sought compensation for their harms.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The law also requires future working groups, including a Building Energy Transition Implementation Task Force.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 20, 2023

As the business world grapples with demands to combat climate change, the role of commercial buildings in reducing greenhouse gas emissions has come into sharp focus. Chief among the flaws is many of the state programs have been described as sophomoric lacking in the rigor of the legal structure surrounding commercial real estate.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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 standards for rental properties. worse than G).

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 6, 2022

The latest report from the United Nations climate panel urges global leaders to adopt policies to reduce carbon pollution. In Canada , the federal government will fund a multi-million-dollar water reservoir in a rural community plagued by water contamination. Latest IPCC Report Tackles Climate Mitigation. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Modeled after Irvine Ranch in California, the largest planned community in the United States, Teravalis is seen by local and state elected leaders as a crowning achievement in a booming real estate market. That is putting more pressure to supply homes and businesses from finite water reserves held in aquifers. .

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Details of the Taxonomy The Taxonomy introduces a “traffic light” system to categorise activities across the eight focus sectors: Green transition category — activities contributing substantially to climate change mitigation by: operating at near-zero emissions; or are on a 1.5ºC–aligned pathway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When I began working as a state government scientist in Minnesota, I was motivated to advance environmental protections that prevent against pollutants from crossing from one environmental medium to another, such as from the air to water. You have likely heard of one of these policies known as redlining. Listening to the EJ movement.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This follows our post last week alerting commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about these regulations requiring Greenhouse Gas Data Must be Collected Beginning January 1 in Maryland. That the schedule for these regulations, prescribed in statute, has been missed (. In section 26.28.02.C.,

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

DWR’s efforts in this regard took place from 2001 to 2006, involving “five federal agencies, five state agencies, seven local government entities, five Native American tribes, four local water agencies, and 13 nongovernmental organizations,” with three years of hearings and two years of negotiations. 791a et seq.).

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

Since 2016, GRIC has played a central role in storing over 370,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mead, plus 130,000 more acre-feet this year to keep lake levels high enough to prevent a water shortage declaration more dire than the one the federal government issued last August. That seems certain to change. million acre-feet allotment.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Appellate Law. Climate Change. Government Contracts: The Elite. Government Relations. Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. Real Estate. Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: The Elite. Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since my inaugural post (which can be viewed here ) was a “top ten” list of CEQA litigation mistakes to avoid, I thought an appropriate tenth anniversary post might be a list of the ten most significant CEQA case law developments over the past decade. CEQA analysis of GHG/climate change impacts is different – and difficult.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 11, 2023

In the face of concerns over global climate change, finding effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has become a pressing priority. Alongside direct mitigation efforts, environmental offsets have emerged as a critical tool in the battle against climate change. The Importance of Environmental Offsets 1.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

To date, the growing trend in the financial services industry to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into business strategies, risk management frameworks and disclosure practices largely has been a voluntary undertaking. N:Group of Thirty, Mainstreaming the Transition to a Net-Zero Economy , October 2020.]]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The common denominators that have hampered Puerto Rico’s capacity to face these issues are the colonial status as a US territory, and the associated lack of self-determination, self-governance, and sovereignty. the Foraker Act , the Jones-Shafroth Act , the Jones Act , the Federal Relations Act , the PROMESA law) and judicial decisions (e.g.,

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Pendent to those Scope 3 downstream businesses, many more will be impacted by this California law and other coming ESG regulation, enabling a large number of businesses to do their part to repair the world while taking advantage of ESG opportunities. government and The Group of Seven. government and The Group of Seven.

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

Will we have made the necessary changes to reduce the adverse impacts from climate change? In this article I address some of the things that lawyers have been doing in one of these areas – climate change. The Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) enacted a similar climate change resolution in October 2021.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

AB 2011: Ministerial Review for Specified Housing Projects on Sites Zoned for Office, Retail, and Parking The most significant CEQA legislative change last year was Assembly Bill 2011 (Wicks), which enacted the “Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022,” which is codified in Government Code section 65912.101 through 65912.140 (the Act”).

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

4) affirmed a judgment upholding the City of Newark’s (City) use of Government Code § 65457’s CEQA exemption for a 469-lot residential subdivision on land adjacent to San Francisco Bay. It also discussed climate change and sea level rise impacts, noting the Bay level could rise as much as 5.5 2016) 1 Cal.5th

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 14, 2023

But this is an entirely new area of government regulation; no government has ever done this before! when the federal government often enters into memoranda agreeing to comply with state and county land use rules), when federal buildings may need to be included for the state to meet its overarching 2045 net zero target?

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 4, 2021

There are federal government associated multifamily green bonds offering better pricing and higher proceeds, but the federal government is not facile enough to command this space effectively. Do not underestimate the force that a change in green building can be. Real estate has been and remains the largest sector in the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 28, 2024

There are private sector pledges by building owners and mandates from governments that buildings be net zero by 2040 and the like, but there is little, if any guidance, as to what that net zero building is. With the fast evolving dynamic between science and law, today zero emission is ill defined, unregulated, and complex.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The past year has witnessed unprecedented innovation and a global commitment to addressing climate change. Through the adoption of energy efficient designs, improved insulation, the growing integration of solar panels, and other renewable energy solutions, the built environment played a crucial role in mitigating climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

23 RiverWatch Video Report -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: In Pittsburgh, John Kerry Says Climate Change Solutions Will Be Driven By Private Sector -- Pittsburgh Business Times: World Leaders Hail New U.S. DOE Opening Lab On CO2 Capture From The Air, Will It Be In Pittsburgh Or WV? -- PennTAP Hosts Nov. What’s Your Community Doing?

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 20, 2023

Per the Court: “So long as the EIR provides sufficient information to analyze environmental impacts – including the objective criteria being used – a project description for a large-scale vegetation removal that is subject to changing future conditions need not specify, on a highly detailed level, the number of trees removed.” (Citations and fn.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 26, 2019

The “projected law date” is March 28 of this year. With about two weeks away from this historic projection, it is important to revisit the efficacy of this law. has now solidified its space as a national leader in the fight against climate change and proudly communicate to the world that we are still in.”.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Namely, it found that (1) Louisiana has a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of its claims; (2) that Louisiana stood to suffer imminent, irreparable injury; and (3) that the injunction would serve the public interest in lawful government actions and in ensuring that the government treat all citizens equally without considering race.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

The [federal] long-term recovery plan rests on the notion that people will leave and not come back, in the creation of factors that artificially lower property values (this is one effect of flood maps), in order to promote massive land transfer that afterwards, magically, allow for flood risk mitigation and real estate development of those lands.

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Acoel

JANUARY 19, 2022

Real property laws may vary as to who holds that ownership interest. While traditional real estate law may suggest that one or more parties may own the property underlying the waterbody, that may not be true with respect to the stream-bed itself. If it was not, the federal government is the owner of the stream-bed.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Observing that where an administrative remedy is provided it is a “jurisdictional prerequisite” that must be exhausted before courts will act (citing Citizens for Open Government v. City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 5th 470, 492-493, my 4/13/21 post on which can be found here.)

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

We must apply the laws that the Legislature has written to the facts in the record. Factual and Procedural Background UC campuses are required by law to periodically adopt LRDPs to guide their decisions on land and infrastructure development. Our task is limited.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

And yes, this is with appreciation that the subject is hierarchically a subset of environmental, the E in ESG, and then below that climate change. And that was in advance of proposed future mandates of government even going into effect. The topic of disclosing and reducing GHG is everywhere.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

Permanent climate change targeting of program funds. Extended alternative funding arrangement authority for tribal governments. Permanent climate change targeting of program funds. Extends alternative funding arrangement authority for tribal governments.

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