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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Green buildings generate large quantities of data. In an age when many have opinions about Edward Snowden’s disclosures, foreign state sponsored hacking, and Uber’s massive customer data hack, most people have not considered matters of data protection from their real estate, green building or otherwise.

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EPA Releases Draft National Recycling Strategy

Green Building Law Update

It is important to accept that EPA’s authority to regulate recycling is fuzzy at best, beyond the agency’s implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. EPA’s data shows recycling and reuse activities accounted for approximately 757,000 jobs, $36.6 Most solid waste collection in the U.S. is at the municipal level.

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SEC Assessment of Climate Change Risks Still Mandated

Green Building Law Update

While I was on the Baltoro glacier making my way down from K2 in Pakistan earlier this month the Securities and Exchange Commission informed Exxon Mobil Corp. that it closed its investigation into whether the company had misled investors about the risks that climate change posed to its business.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. Green Building. Compliance/Regulations. Anyone working in accounting or human resources has access to immense amounts of personal data. So it’s no surprise that whenever I talk to companies about how they store their data, the number one concern I hear is in regards to security.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. Green Building. Compliance/Regulations. Tags accounting. accounting software. Construction Accounting Software. Construction Accounting Software. Green Building. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. January 2009.

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Climate Change Disclosures by Public Companies

Green Building Law Update

In recent weeks this law firm has received more inquiries than at any time in recent years about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s disclosure requirements for public companies as they apply to climate change matters. if only as an indirect consequence of buildings accounting for 72% of the electricity consumption in the U.S.). .

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Climate Change Disclosures by Public Companies

Green Building Law Update

In recent weeks this law firm has received more inquiries than at any time in recent years about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s disclosure requirements for public companies as they apply to climate change matters. if only as an indirect consequence of buildings accounting for 72% of the electricity consumption in the U.S.).