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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

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New GSG, SHG, SEC Facilities Regulations and Reporting Requirements on the near-term horizon. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to require that public companies disclose climate-related information. Take back agreements. Is your organization ready? SEC 17 CFR 210, 229, 232, 239, and 249). Organizational.

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Maryland Enacts New Environmental Laws in 2020

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Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. HB 619 Maryland law and regulations are today silent with regard to PFAS including PFOA. Nor does it in any other way prohibit or even regulate PFAS chemicals.

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Maryland Enacts New Environmental Laws in 2020

Green Building Law Update

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. HB 619 Maryland law and regulations are today silent with regard to PFAS including PFOA. Nor does it in any other way prohibit or even regulate PFAS chemicals.

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FTC Regulates What You can Say about Your Solar Panels

Green Building Law Update

A business that generates renewable energy, say, with solar panels, but sells the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for that renewable energy may not then claim it “uses” renewable energy. The Federal Trade Commissions has prescribed that such would be deceptive. Among the relevant language in the Green Guides is, §260.15

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Path Cleared To Decommissioning And Site Restoration Of Vermont Yankee

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Peter Shumlin, Attorney General Bill Sorrell, and Bill Mohl, President of Entergy Wholesale Commodities, have announced a settlement agreement between the State and the owner and operator of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. Entergy VY).

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

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. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?).

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

But arising from a 2014 confidential agreement signed by the U.S. The materials and resources provisions are greatly expanded upon, including that it will now be the law that a minimum of 10 different products installed in the building project at the time of issuance of certificate of occupancy must have EPDs. Sec 901.4.1.4.

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