Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Background Information: The agricultural lands which are the subject of the application were among the 15 parcels stripped of Greenbelt protection in late 2022, despite the Ontario government’s express promise never to remove land from the Greenbelt.

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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 the absence of government regulation, insurance prices for real estate will rise there. Suppose that fire risk is rising in a fire zone. In my 2021 RMS interview, I expand upon these themes.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This means that the Impact Assessment Act can easily be amended to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision without undermining the federal government’s ability to move forward with a full and thorough impact assessment of Highway 413.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final regulations for their elective pay program , which allows many non-taxpayers, including local governments and their agencies and instrumentalities, to recoup the value of certain climate and clean energy tax credits as cash payments.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance). Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations). Government Contracts: The Elite. Government Relations. Securities: Regulation Enforcement. Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. Real Estate.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 20, 2023

Commercial PACE is a financing mechanism that enables building owners to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation projects, and the like, through private loans collected with government property tax assessment billings.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

Corporate Governance. Energy Regulation: Conventional Power. Financial Services Regulation. Government Contracts. Government Relations. Real Estate. Real Estate Finance. Transport: Aviation and Air Travel: Litigation and Regulation. Capital Markets: Global Offerings.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As two leading Local Law 97 lawyers wrote , “[t]he decision provides clarity to the NYC real estate community that Local Law 97 is valid, enforceable, and constitutional.” But it also offers a broader primer to local governments elsewhere. The court holds that the CLCPA does not preempt Local Law 97.

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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. That science factors into plaintiffs’ claims, government defenses, and judicial decisions.

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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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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2018 and 2019, the City adopted ordinances to tax and impose licensing procedures and regulations on commercial cannabis businesses, but it was also required to designate certain parcels in the City where cannabis-related land uses would be permitted before it could accept permit applications.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 11, 2022

The New York Times has publishe d a good opinion piece by a Professor of English on the unintended consequences of federal subsidies and regulations for living in flood plains. Instead, I will discuss how flood risk (ex-ante) and flooding affects the real estate market and the distribution of income. Why is that fair?

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

One knock on the bill is that it unduly burdens privately owned real estate with GHG emission reductions, ignoring other sectors, when for example cumulatively real estate in Maryland is responsible for about 18% of GHG and transportation is responsible for 40%, but transportation is barely mentioned in the more than 100 pages?

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Greenbuilding Law

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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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. anticipate that climate change risks will alter the way existing laws and regulations apply (e.g., John Kerry, then U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

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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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CEQA Developments

MARCH 27, 2023

The trial court also cited case law and section 3733 of title 23 of the California Code of Regulations to support its ruling that the permits were entirely exempt from CEQA irrespective of the statute’s only reference to chapter 3. As the Court noted, Chapter 3 of Division 13 of the Public Resources Code is the portion of CEQA governing EIRs.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

million commercial real estate transactions each year in the United States (i.e., including for a real estate purchaser to avoid liability under CERCLA [the Superfund law]).

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Dwyer Florida Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations Troy A. Eid USA – Nationwide Native American Law Iris Escarra Florida: South Real Estate: Zoning/ Land Use David G. Draye Arizona Litigation: Appellate Brian L. Duffy Colorado Litigation: General Commercial Jared E.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The dissent reasoned that CEQA, a powerful and mandatory regulatory statute operating in areas duplicative of FERC’s FPA licensing authority, “stands as a clear obstacle to the Congressional objective of vesting exclusive control over hydropower licensing and regulation in FERC.”. North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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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. While climate mitigation solutions exist and governments have made commitments, the IPCC report shows that global emissions continue to rise and warns of irreversible consequences.

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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. Its first planned project is Summerlin, a 22,500-acre development with 100,000 residents outside Las Vegas. .

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

And that was in advance of proposed future mandates of government even going into effect. A little more than a month ago, the DOD, GSA, and NASA proposed to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require certain Federal contractors disclose their GHG emissions and set science based targets to reduce their GHG emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

It would be one thing if this topic was only prospective, about leases to be entered into in the future, but the reality is there are very large numbers of existing leases including with renewal terms that are for premises that will be regulated by emergent greenhouse gas emission disclosure and reduction statutes, rules, and regulations.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

EPA , a federal district court granted Louisiana’s request to preliminarily enjoin the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from imposing or enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (“Title VI”) based on disparate impact regulations. 2:23-CV-00692 (W.D.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 6, 2023

After the trial court sustained without leave the City’s demurrer to the Committee’s Vehicle Code, Municipal Code, CEQA, and Highway Code causes of action, the Committee dismissed its remaining declaratory relief and Government Code causes of actions, resulting in the final judgment from which it appealed.

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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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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

Judicial review under CEQA is governed by Public Resources Code § 21168.5 The Court’s opinion addresses issues of first impression regarding the recirculated DEIR “summarization” requirement of what turns out to be a rather obscure regulation, CEQA Guidelines § 15088.5(g). Citing CCP § 1094.5(a); a); Citizens for East Shore Parks v.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

action, and discussing general legal principles governing CEQA review under the Commission’s certified regulatory program, the Court examined in detail the Commission’s procedures for de novo review of CDP applications. The Court of Appeal’s Decision. After reciting the standard of review in a CCP § 1094.5 California Coastal Com. 2017) 2 Cal.5th

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The AG’s office freely acknowledges that the basis of the document is the AG’s experience as a litigant in CEQA cases, while also conceding – as it obviously must – that the document has no independent legal effect: This document does not impose additional requirements on local governments or alter any applicable laws or regulations.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 10, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. Citing Sierra Club v.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Accelerating the Road to Regulation. Non-state actors cannot lobby to undermine ambitious government climate policies either directly or through trade associations or other bodies, (despite that among the 193 member states few are true representative democracies). Aligning Lobbying and Advocacy 7. Investing in Just Transitions 10.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cal-Am’s Multi-Component, Cross-Jurisdictional Water Supply Project Cal-Am is a CPUC-regulated investor-owned water utility that supplies water to much of the Monterey Peninsula, a semi-arid area prone to frequent drought conditions that is heavily reliant on historically over drafted groundwater aquifers for its water supply.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On December 8, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a notice as an initial step in addressing potential money laundering vulnerabilities associated with non-financed transactions in the US real estate market.[[N: N: Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Real Estate Transactions , 86 Fed.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 4, 2023

For those attending the Maryland Bar Legal Summit in Ocean City, Maryland, Nancy Hudes and I will be presenting a fun and fast paced “Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon” on Thursday, June 8 at 1:30 pm.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2020

Under Section 418.173 of the Texas Government Code, failure to comply with any executive order issued during the COVID-19 crisis is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, confinement in jail for a term not to exceed 180 days, or both. These acceptable alternative filing methods vary from parish to parish and remain fluid at this time.

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