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Phase l Assessments for Tenants are the Hottest Environmental Issue in 2020

Green Building Law Update

Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 was Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). 9601 et seq., 9601 et seq., So while instructive, it provided little, if any, comfort to tenants.

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I Just Read my 1000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment this Year

Green Building Law Update

Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 were the very few words of Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). 9601 et seq., 9601 et seq., So while instructive, it provided little, if any, comfort to tenants.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

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.” Because the U.S.

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Top 10 Environmental Blog Posts of 2020

Green Building Law Update

I am supremely confident that our longtime business philosophy of “environmental risk as an opportunity” is right for the times. In descending order these are the posts that had the most traffic: COVID-19 Liability for Building Owners. 2018 IgCC Poised to be Adopted for the First Time.

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Specifying below grade waterproofing

GCP Applied Technologies

Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:08. May 14, 2018. Investigate the water table level and assess the risk of rising ground water levels due to high rainfall or flooding. These water leaks beneath the surface can also lead to mold, which has the potential to cause significant health problems and potential liability issues.

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Specifying below grade waterproofing

GCP Applied Technologies

Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:08. May 14, 2018. Investigate the water table level and assess the risk of rising ground water levels due to high rainfall or flooding. These water leaks beneath the surface can also lead to mold, which has the potential to cause significant health problems and potential liability issues.

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Superfund can Save Our Current Way of Life

Green Building Law Update

There is no dispute that the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as Superfund, has failed to clean up more than a small fraction of the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites. Billion to $762 Million.

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