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FTC Regulates What You can Say about Your Solar Panels

Green Building Law Update

A business that generates renewable energy, say, with solar panels, but sells the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for that renewable energy may not then claim it “uses” renewable energy. The Federal Trade Commissions has prescribed that such would be deceptive. Among the relevant language in the Green Guides is, §260.15

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M&V, MBCx, WTF: Building Performance Monitoring as a Means to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

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As building owners and occupiers adopt zero commitments and find their properties subject to energy performance and emissions regulations, the question becomes, ‘how can we achieve these ambitious reduction targets?’

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AEE WEST 2023: Building Performance Monitoring

Stok

As building owners and occupiers adopt zero commitments and find their properties subject to energy performance and emissions regulations, the question becomes, ‘how can we achieve these ambitious reduction targets?’

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Green Building Law Update

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. Finally, the bill adds the People’s Counsel as a member of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council. Carbon Reduction.

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Top 10 Companies for Environmental Engineers to Work For

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. “Those can be part of what an environmental engineer does, but in terms of what an environmental engineer does a day in and day out, you’re really focused on what the regulations say, what you’re required to do to meet those regulations and how you’re going to do it, (while also bearing in mind) the cost and the timeline.”

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

Green Building Law Update

which for the first time requires “for individual leased, rented, or other tenant or subtenant space within any building totaling in excess of 50,000 ft2 (5000 m2), separate submeters shall be provided.”. The reworked provisions for construction and plans for operation , now combined in chapter 10, are much more than systems commissioning.

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2018 IgCC – A Fast Paced Deep Dive

Green Building Law Update

which for the first time requires “for individual leased, rented, or other tenant or subtenant space within any building totaling in excess of 50,000 ft2 (5000 m2), separate submeters shall be provided.”. The reworked provisions for construction and plans for operation , now combined in chapter 10, are much more than systems commissioning.

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