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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The decision flies in the face of the advice of the secretariat of the World Heritage Convention which had recommended that because of slow progress in addressing the dual threats of climate change and over-tourism, Venice should be placed on its “in danger” list. Sea level rise and worsening storms are wreaking havoc.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, a unique collaboration involving the American Bar Association (ABA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and the Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) has begun to discuss the role of lawyers in combatting climate change and share best practices. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The latest policy brief from the UCLA Emmett Institute examines California’s existing real estate disclosure practices and suggests mechanisms to improve them to account for the accelerating risk of rising sea levels and ultimately inform potential buyers. local land use planning that implements sea level rise adaptation strategies).

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Environmental and Urban Economics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

They have full information about each city's productivity, amenities real estate prices, and quality of life and one element of quality of life is local infection risk. There are other quality of life factors such as air pollution and local climate and topography. Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Given the changing demographics of our population, real estate suppliers will offer rental properties if there is demand. In a renter economy, there would be less support for local NIMBYism and real estate developers would build more housing and this would reduce rent rise risk. 2 (2005): 763-789. and Thomas N.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is a highly optimistic adaptation paper and it puts Government at the center of achieving adaptation progress. In this blog post, I will offer a few thoughts related to my research agenda on the microeconomics of climate change adaptation. One response to such frictions is to mandate adaptive investment." Kahn Matthew E.,

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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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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

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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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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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. Moreover, even with respect to real estate, the government has largely excepted itself when schools, the largest public building type are exempt from this law.

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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).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 25, 2023

As always, the resume format may be satirical, but the information is real. You can tell the government to stand up to Big Oil by clicking here to send a letter to the federal government. In addition to oil, the Irving Company included forestry, real estate, consumer goods, ship-building assets and media holdings.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 11, 2022

Instead, I will discuss how flood risk (ex-ante) and flooding affects the real estate market and the distribution of income. When one owns an asset, there is uncertainty about how the price of the asset will change over time. Worries about climate gentrification on higher ground will be muted. Why is that fair?

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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.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

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. Environment.

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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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Circle of Blue

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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

In 2021, commercial real estate entities JLL and CBRE announced they would pursue achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040. To continue that momentum nationally, we need systemic change: we need to revise our building codes, we need to migrate toward full building electrification, and we need to decarbonize the energy grid.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

4th 439, clarified the rules governing CEQA’s “environmental baseline,” the analytical construct intended to represent the existing physical conditions in the project’s vicinity against which a project’s environmental impacts are measured. CEQA analysis of GHG/climate change impacts is different – and difficult.

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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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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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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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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. The only exception is for backup generators when grid power is unavailable. This is not intended to be the end.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

This has been achieved through a variety of strategic energy, sustainability, and real estate optimization plans. As PNC continues to execute on our Climate Action Strategy , we’re committed to taking action right now on those areas we can control, and to laying a solid foundation for the work that is still to come.”

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

government and The Group of Seven. Commercial real estate may be the best ESG supply chain opportunity. Moreover, that interest in real estate is often the largest component of a business’ total assets, allowing it to be properly heavily weighted in ESG disclosures.

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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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CEQA Developments

JUNE 20, 2023

Claremont conceded its challenge to the alleged absence of a climate change discussion lacked merit. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years.

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Acoel

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. But it is not wise to stop the analysis there.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

Low-interest loans of up to $200,000 are available to homeowners and renters to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, and SBA regulations also permit loans up to $40,000 to repair or replace damaged personal property, including vehicles. Bucks County: Lower Bucks Government Services Center 7321 New Falls Rd.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Among the most critiqued aspects of the standards may be mandates that: Non-state actors cannot buy cheap carbon credits that often lack integrity instead of immediately cutting their own emissions across their value chain, (but the UN left Egypt having failed to reach any agreement on rules governing carbon credits).

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Court answered “yes” to the first sub-issue and “no” to the second, but first reviewed general principles governing the use of program EIRs and the standard of review. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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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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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Substantial evidence supported the County’s decision not to recirculate the DEIR after adding information to the FEIR about the Project’s impact to climate change. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Recirculation Not Required.

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