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Accounting For Methane: A Look at the Evolving Greenhouse Gas Emissions Landscape

Stok

This blog post was co-authored by Stok’s Director of Carbon Services Colette Crouse and students in her Masters of the Environment Carbon Accounting & Management course at the University of Colorado, Boulder: Rebecca Billingsley, Andrea Green, and Kenny Prior (see bios below).

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A Quick Science Refresher on Greenhouse Gas

Green Building Law Update

On the cusp of these two regulatory programs, pushing broad sectors of the economy to the next frontier in innovation, SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative at a Cost and Maryland Resets its Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law , a quick 800 word refresher about GHG emissions makes an ideal blog post. emission trends.

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EPA Releases Draft National Recycling Strategy

Green Building Law Update

Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft National Recycling Strategy and is seeking public comment through December 4, 2020, with the goal of finalizing it in early 2021. Baltimore City has not collected recycling since August), anecdotal evidence suggests recycling numbers have decreased sharply in 2020.

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Maryland becomes First State to Ban Polystyrene this Thursday

Green Building Law Update

Styrofoam is actually a registered trademark of Dow Chemical Company and is a brand generally used in industrial settings for building materials and pipe insulation. Styrofoam is not used in the food service industry for coffee cups, coolers, or packaging materials, which are generally made of expanded polystyrene.

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45L Energy Efficient Home Tax Credit Extended for 2021 by Covid Relief Bill

Green Building Law Update

And yes, regular readers of this blog will notice that I am writing about the same Act of Congress I posted about last week, but the $2.3 Section 45L(g) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2021’’. (b) The amendment made by this section shall apply to homes acquired after December 31, 2020.

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Tools for Building a Foundation in Safety

FDR Safety

This blog utilizes research and data from a range of professional safety journals (i.e., Lastly, this blog does not intend to be the end all, but is designed to mentor by overviewing basic safety program organization and key concepts. . Your New Boss May Not Really Understand Safety, October 2020. The Challenges You Now Face.

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GRESB Purchased from GBCI in advance of ESG Breakout

Green Building Law Update

Notably, 957 private real estate companies and funds, and 272 publicly traded companies and REITs participated in the 2020 GRESB real estate survey, representing more than 96,000 assets located in 64 countries. And, of course there is a cottage industry of ESG consultants who will draft the GRESB questionnaire responses to skew the score.