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

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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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 26, 2024

Real estate actors across the United States are at the precipice of a major climate opportunity. Download the report. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the increased focus by investors, lenders, regulators, and policymakers on building decarbonization, positions the sector to take meaningful action.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 14, 2022

This is a completely new and emergent area of regulation where businesses across America are for the first time being required to report their greenhouse gases. and yes, you can click on each blog post for a preview of what is to come on Tuesday): Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms. A Quick Refresher on the Science of Greenhouse Gas.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

BAAQMD does acknowledge, however, that consistency with a local greenhouse gas reduction strategy per CEQA Guidelines section 15183.5(b) 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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

After two extensions of the air quality permit, Bradford County Real Estate Partners was advised that construction would not be completed before the July 22, 2022 expiration date of the second extension and neither would the August 26, 2021 appeal of that extension be resolved before then.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise. Starting with my Climatopolis book, I have argued that if people make place based bets (such as investing in Miami real estate), then they should flip two sided coins. My points I present here are based on my reading of their work. How Does a “Climate “Crisis” Emerge?

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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

JANUARY 28, 2024

A broadly accepted common minimum definition for a zero greenhouse gas emissions building, as well as a pathway for verification, is foundational in efforts by public and private entities to transition the building sector to net zero emissions. The only exception is for backup generators when grid power is unavailable.

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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

PennFuture , Clean Air Council , and Sierra Club appealed a second extension of the air pollution permit the Department of Environmental Protectionissued for the Bradford County Real Estate Partners Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility proposed near the Susquehanna River in Wyalusing Township in Bradford County.

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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

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. government and The Group of Seven.

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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

4th 204, taught that a project’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (and related climate change impacts) are cumulative impacts and constitute a rather “different animal” for CEQA analysis purposes. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

Walmart has pledged to remove a gigaton of greenhouse gas emissions from its value chain by 2030, the equivalent of removing 200 million cars from the roads every year. As a result, transfers of interests in property often require timely and costly investments in surveys, title work, and real estate attorneys.

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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. The court quickly dispenses with the plaintiffs’ argument.

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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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SPR Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024. On September 12, 2023, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97).

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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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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Nor does our ruling require the City to evaluate the Gemdale project’s greenhouse gas emissions under any specific approach. The Court further added that “we express no opinion on the specific method the City should use to evaluate the significance of the Gemdale project’s greenhouse gas emissions (e.g.,

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024. On October 6, 2022, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97).

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

We also expect the judicial branch will supplant the executive and legislative branches, in driving greenhouse gas and the larger global warming policy. Climate change litigation is continuing and evolving rapidly, and we expect the number of cases will continue growing. Webinar is complimentary, but you must register here.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

Combined with real estate speculation on newly accessible land, these early transit systems turned a short-term profit. Sprawling development with policy decisions for zoning that restricted buildings to single-family homes made future real estate speculation less viable. We got what we paid for—it wasn’t great.

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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. As we grapple with the 21st century need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, offsets have emerged as an important strategy in our toolkit. You can register here.

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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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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 (.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 21, 2023

The project would unacceptably increase greenhouse gas emissions and posed risks to water quality. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Dirt hauling operations would cause pollution.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Owners must track their buildings’ energy usage and emissions on an annual basis and make any necessary improvements to comply with the 2026 and 2030 statutory greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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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

Local real estate agents and residents say the company’s offers do not account for the region’s skyrocketing housing costs, pushing some who accept them back into debt in order to buy a new home. A half-built greenhouse sits in her former backyard, her once-lively home stripped of its porch and part of the roof.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

Bobby Payne, rewrite Florida energy policy to eliminate state goals to address the impacts of climate change and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as erase mentions of climate change. Research by the Emmett Institute shows that Florida leads the way when it comes to real estate risk disclosures about sea level rise.

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