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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

City of New York , a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment and other building owners seeking to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the City’s largest buildings. But it also offers a broader primer to local governments elsewhere.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. None of the amendments, however, more broadly limit CEQA’s reach.

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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. To be clear, Maryland has determined “decarbonizing” buildings is an important step toward achieving the State’s bleeding edge greenhouse gas reduction mandates.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Climate change is also affecting a growing number of legal practice areas, including business and corporate governance, real estate, land use, insurance, immigration, and employment law. It also “urges lawyers to engage in pro bono activities to aid efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.”

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Accordingly, the Taxonomy accounts for maritime vessels that are aligned with the International Maritime Organisation’s 2023 strategy for greenhouse gas reduction. Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

With initiatives like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a Clean Energy Standard, strengthening Act 129 energy efficiency programs, funding the Whole Homes Repair Act, and establishing building performance standards for existing buildings, we could go even further.”

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

Finally, the Court rejected Lucas’s next line of attack, which was to assert that many of the Project’s environmental impacts – including traffic, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, land use/planning, noise, and public service impacts – were not exempt from further review because they were found to be less than significant in the 2014 EIR.

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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. My December 18, 2015 post on the case can be found here. Baseline basics are clarified.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

Disclosing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing GHG aiming for Net Zero is not only an issue for businesses, although make no mistake it will be among the biggest business issues of the year, but it will also soon impact ‘people’ who occupy rental apartments, condominiums and the like, and in the not too distant future will impact nearly all of us.

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

It urges: Federal, state and local governments, and the private sector, to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to net zero or below. In 2019, after the United States had withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates adopted a climate change resolution (No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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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. Nor does our ruling require the City to evaluate the Gemdale project’s greenhouse gas emissions under any specific approach.

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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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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. Additionally, purchasing and retiring offsets in the marketplace voluntarily or to satisfy a government mandate is key to reducing the emissions footprint. You can register here.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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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CEQA Developments

MARCH 21, 2023

These decisive government approvals and endorsements of the project did not end the matter; there followed the neighbor-opponents’ Superior Court action challenging the City Council’s and Coastal Commission’s actions. The project would unacceptably increase greenhouse gas emissions and posed risks to water quality.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Of import, building owners can apply for robust local and state government financing opportunities, grants, tax credits, and other incentives to assist with some costs of implementation.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 14, 2023

In a proactive move toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in the state, the Maryland Department of the Environment has today released draft regulations to implement key aspects of Senate Bill 528 of 2022 – The Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 9, 2023

While the term greenhouse gas emissions easily rolls off the tongue these days and there has been a ballooning of net zero GHG commitments by government and non-state actors alike, this is all still a very new idea and in point of fact, as of April 2023, few U.S. businesses have actually calculated their GHG emissions.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. The federal government will eventually assume responsibility for the more than 50 defunct mills that generated this waste. It didn’t happen.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

The only thing worse than a wet heat is being governed by climate change deniers in a wet heat. Instead, Florida lawmakers have passed a bill that strips local governments of the ability to protect workers from extreme heat fueled by climate change. If signed by Gov. It’s the kind of anecdote that often pushes policymakers into action.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 24, 2023

As we sing Auld Lang Syne to 2023, a pivotal year for global sustainability efforts, it’s time to reflect on the strides made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in the realm of the built environment, all as described in our top 10 most read blog posts of the year.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 23, 2021

Flash floods hit the country of Oman as the government attempts to stop the spread of Covid-19. Others fear, based on onerous Trump-era immigration policies, that they will later be punished for accepting government assistance. Between an unrelenting drought and a real estate boom in Oakley, Utah, water supplies were dwindling.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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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

JULY 20, 2023

As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” Coastal residents can see in the UCS report, Underwater , how sea level rise will impact real estate in every coastal zip code and congressional district.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Morton opened the door for environmental groups to sue over government actions, something that Justice Scalia had opposed since his days as a law professor. The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992) (Justice Scalia ). EPA, 549 U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This Advisory is the second in a series concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations for the financial services industry and other companies. In his letter, Fink also stated that "[w]hile government must lead the way in this transition, companies and investors also have a meaningful role to play."

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