Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 9, 2018

The question before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals was whether existing state law, which grants the Maryland Public Service Commission general regulatory powers over electric generating stations, including a “solar energy generating system,” preempts local zoning regulation regarding the location and construction of such a generating station.

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Regulation Maryland Zoning Washington 174

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We caution companies not to make unqualified general environmental claims because ‘‘it is highly unlikely that marketers can substantiate all reasonable interpretations of these claims,’’ the Federal Trade Commission standard for environmental claims. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Editor’s note : This blog was originally published as a Client Alert by Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Fourth, the provision eliminates the exceptions for commissions and performance-based compensation from the definition of compensation subject to the deduction limit. Drizner and Michael Lobie. Republished with permission. .

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Employment Compensation Agreement Income 85

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 1, 2019

For purposes of this blog post highlighting the significant changes in the 2018 IgCC, that new code will be contrasted with the 2012 IgCC and not the 2015 version, which last version we are only aware a single jurisdiction has adopted. so there was room for wider adoption of a 2018 IgCC. Sec 1001.3.2

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Green Maryland Site Certification 156

Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

For purposes of this blog post highlighting some of the significant changes in the 2018 IgCC, the new code will be contrasted with the 2012 IgCC and not the 2015 version (which later version we are only aware a single jurisdiction has adopted). So there is room for wider adoption of a 2018 IgCC. Sec 1001.3.2

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Green Certification Site Sustainability 136

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Publicly traded companies are required to disclose material business risks to investors through regular filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In point of fact, in 2016 this law firm received more inquiries than any year before about SEC disclosure requirements as they apply to climate change.

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