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FTC Finds Truly Organic is Not

Green Building Law Update

million to settle a Federal Trade Commission greenwashing complaint alleging that their nationally marketed bath and beauty products are neither “certified organic” nor “vegan” as falsely claimed. By way of a federal court order that became final last month, Truly Organic Inc. and its founder will pay $1.76 Marketers don’t get to greenwash.

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#68:? Energy Code Compliance

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The commission historically issued a permit only for residential construction (based on submission of application form EC-1 ), and relied on the design professional's certification without issuing a permit for commercial construction. Section 103.1 ” Upon repeal of RSA 155-D, New Hampshire has no such statute.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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Most high-performance building certifications and city codes use ASHRAE and ICC’s building codes to define energy performance requirements within their rating systems. In this case, an energy model is used to document the savings of the aggregated energy performance of the design over the code baseline. How to approach compliance.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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By Jenny Vickers From the May/June 2016 Issue. In March 2016, McAuliffe signed into law measures that establish a workforce training program targeted to increase specific industry certifications and occupational licenses that meet the needs of businesses in each region of the state. Located at the junction of U.S.

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Oklahoma Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Certification that all projects described within the related project plan will generate, in the aggregate, a minimum of either $1,000,000 in payroll, exclusive of payroll for construction, or 5,000,000 in investment; . The certificates of deposit bear interest rates of up to 3% below the standard rate. 632): The U.S. TAX INCENTIVES.

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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

Green Building Law Update

Green Building Council’s LEED (the ubiquitous acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the most widely used green building rating system in the world, less than 1% of commercial buildings in the U.S. And for projects registered since October 31, 2016 that means the LEED v4 ID+C: CI rating system.

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What the LEED Pilot for Wood Is and What It Is Not

Green Building Law Update

There may be no single subject matter more discussed with over the 15 year history of LEED than forest product certification. What USGBC did do within the April 5, 2016 quarterly addenda to LEED was include a new temporary alternative compliance path credit, MRpc102 Legal Wood| Possible 1 point. It is simply not from a managed tree.

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