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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

Businesses making a net zero claim like, “we will be net zero by 2030” risk a charge that they are misleading consumers. It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. But it is another thing for a business to make ESG claims about net zero or otherwise that mislead customers.

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An SBA Public Service Announcement: If You See Something, Say Something

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

filed a protest with the contracting officer asserting that Sanford was not a small business because it received significant contract awards between 2019 and 2023, which, when averaged, exceeded the procurement’s applicable size standard. The non-awardee, Caldaia Controls, Inc.,

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When Trees Sue for their Own Environmental Preservation

Green Building Law Update

In 2019, Toledo residents voted to approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, within the City’s charter “which include the rights of Lake Erie and its watershed to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve.”. And significantly there is no defense for an issued permit or claim of preemption by other state or federal laws.

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

Green Building Law Update

For those concerned about the state of the environmental industrial complex during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, I can report that last Friday I reviewed my 1,000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment this year. So while instructive, it provided little, if any, comfort to tenants.

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Happy New Year From DoD – The Proposed CMMC Rule Is Here

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

Department of Defense (DoD) published the much anticipated proposed rule for the revamped Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 For example, contractors subject to 252.204–7012 are already required to safeguard covered defense information in accordance with NIST SP 800-171.

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#90:  Government Contractor Immunity

NH Construction Law

2019) ( quoting In re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation , 456 F.Supp.2d Overlapping the “derivative sovereign immunity” defense is the so-called “government contractor defense” to liability for procurement of negligently designed equipment, articulated in Boyle v. ” 28 U.S.C. §

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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

In late 2019 hazardous waste incinerators in at least three states were destroying PFAS fire-fighting foam (. The Department of Defense has identified 15 bases in Maryland “known to have releases of PFAS.” The EPA reports, “there is evidence that exposure to PFAS can lead to adverse health outcomes.

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