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Former Public Officials Indicted on Criminal Charges in Flint Water Crisis

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Indictments were issued after that sole grand juror listened to and evaluated the evidence presented for 12 months. General Motors stopped using the public water in October 2014 after determining it was corroding automobile parts. It is alleged that as many as 12,000 children were exposed to drinking water with high levels of lead.

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Proposals for changes to the International Green Construction Code are due by January 10

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In fact, proposals for changes to the International Code Council’s “Green Construction Code” have been accepted since November and are due not later than January 10, 2014. in November 2010. Proposed IgCC changes submitted will be posted online by March 10, 2014 for public review.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

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a comprehensive rating system that provides strategies and tools for resilient building and design, is expected to be launched on Monday, November 12th. addresses the issue differently, when it prescribes, “building on green field sites below the 500 year floodplain is not permitted.”. The launch of RELi 2.0 Of note, RELi 2.0

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Harvard Business Review Adds Environmental Performance to Ranking CEOs

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On the hard numbers alone, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos would apparently lead all other CEOs in the ranking, as he did in 2014. The article in the November issue includes quotes from an interview with Sørensen, including, “Corporate social responsibility is nothing but maximizing the value of your company over a long period.”

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Green Building Bonds as a Game Changing New Source of Capital

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Regency Centers Corporation, a publicly traded REIT, completed the sale of $250 million of “green building bonds” on May 14, 2014. ” Only days before the green building bond sale, on May 12, 2014, Regency was honored by the U.S. In November 2013, Bank of America issued the first ever U.S.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

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a comprehensive rating system that provides strategies and tools for resilient building and design, was approved last week and is being launched on Monday, November 12th. addresses the issue differently, when it prescribes, “building on green field sites below the 500 year floodplain is not permitted.”. The launch of RELi 2.0

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CRANE OPERATOR CERTIFICATION

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OSHA recently announced that it would extend deadline for implementing its crane operator certification rule requiring employers to ensure that crane operators are certified until November 10, 2017. OSHA is also extending the employers’ duty to ensure that crane operators are competent to operate a crane safely for the same period.