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EPA Releases Draft National Recycling Strategy

Green Building Law Update

Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft National Recycling Strategy and is seeking public comment through December 4, 2020, with the goal of finalizing it in early 2021. This draft identifies strategic objectives and actions needed to create a stronger, more resilient U.S. solid waste recycling system.

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Baltimore City is Adopting the IgCC

Green Building Law Update

This evening an ordinance will be introduced in the Baltimore City Council for the purpose of adopting the International Green Construction Code. So, while it was controversial in 2007 when Baltimore mandating that privately owned building must be constructed green, Bill No. But make no mistake, Baltimore is not greenwashing.

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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

HB 619 was also significantly amended from the originally drafted local bill seeking to protect Baltimore County firefighters from fire-fighting foam (. more precisely, aqueous film-forming foams) containing PFAS. And there are similar PFAS fire-fighting foam systems at marinas and in thousands of boats across the State.

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GBCI Changed its Name and You Need to Change Your Documents

Green Building Law Update

In October a similar announcement was made for the WELL building standard, measuring, certifying and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being. “a structure that has achieved, as certified by Green Business Certification Inc., That contract language might be some variation of.

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

The drafting process was widely criticized resulting in a document that has never been enacted anywhere, and likely should not ever be adopted as code. Green building laws that promote innovation and create an environment rich for investment in real estate can save mankind and our current way of life. The 2015 IgCC (.

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