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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

In the final days of 2015, Nevada became the front line in the looming nationwide fight over energy policy when the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada altered rates for net metering impacting homeowners with rooftop photovoltaic panels.

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The Most Green Building Friendly Zoning Code in the Nation - Baltimore?

Green Building Law Update

Last month, the City Planning Commission approved a draft Code focusing on sustainability recommending adoption by the City Council. · Community-based alternative energy systems are a permitted and conditional use in all zoning districts. · The keeping of livestock and animals is permitted.

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Cob on Wood Homeless Community in Oakland, California

Natural Building

The organizers don’t have permits from the city, nor do they have permission to be there from Caltrans, which owns the land and has a long history of removing encampments along highways and in other areas it manages. He expects the new rules will come before the Planning Commission in the coming weeks.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Substantial financial penalties have been recovered by the Federal Trade Commission and the 50 state attorneys general, not to mention in private civil actions. Many of those local laws are poorly drafted and do not insulate the reporting parties from liability for errors, harmless or otherwise. Some data transmission is involuntary.

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SEC Regulation: What to Expect & How to Prepare for Climate Rules

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new climate rules that would require registrants to report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related financial risks, among other metrics. Last March, the U.S. There has also been contention around the inclusion of third-party assurance for Scope 1 and 2.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. The work was labor-intensive at the time—everything was hand-drawn on drafting boards—and everyone still wore white shirts and ties. Jenny had commissioned a well-known St. In 1969, he earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture. .

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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Jerry Brown fired the two state regulators who had overseen a 70 percent decline in state drilling permits since 2008, a notable turnaround for a state leader who in his first stint as governor in the 1970s pioneered many of California’s landmark environmental protection statutes. Last year, CA Gov. Barstow Casino & Resort Project.