Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. Potable water use reduction may be the most important ESG factor.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Many funds these days brand themselves as “green,” “sustainable,” “low-carbon,” and so on. yes, this blog will continue).

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a regulation to finally resolve and codify the legal principal that an incidental bird take resulting from an otherwise lawful activity, for example a sparrows flies into a solar panel, is not prohibited under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Three weeks ago the U.S. The decision has been appealed.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. yes, this blog will continue).

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 2, 2022

There has been an abject failure on the part of codes officials not to mention a complete void in leadership by the green building industrial complex, all who are more concerned with the progressive issue of energy reduction than ventilation that today translates directly into human health. yes, this blog will continue).

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 18, 2014

As explained in my recent blog post, EPDs are Among the Hottest Topics in Green Building. The White paper is legally not correct, but who would seek legal advice from architects (even a well respected architecture firm like Perkins+Will)? All are invited to the mini symposium “Can Green Building Law Save The Planet?”

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 31, 2021

And there is at least one place where there appears to be a complete disconnect, as I described last year in a post, Maryland the First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS. Additionally, there are a limited number of places where PFAS is regulated as state hazardous substance, like Michigan where should likely be included in a Phase I.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 28, 2015

Governments from Maryland to Colorado now regularly take the position that collecting precipitation is not legal, as a diversion of rainwater before it enters a water course. Maryland has the most stringent storm water (i.e., Like all fugitive substances, it can belong to no one else except the public.” Eaton, 1952.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 28, 2015

Governments from Maryland to Colorado now regularly take the position that collecting precipitation is not legal, as a diversion of rainwater before it enters a water course. Maryland has the most stringent storm water (i.e., Like all fugitive substances, it can belong to no one else except the public.” Eaton, 1952.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 25, 2021

We have performed a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in conformance with the scope and limitations of ASTM Practice E1527-21 of [insert address or legal description], the subject property. A potential positive for anyone who has found the word choice in the ultimate conclusion awkward, is the new, 12.7.1 “We of this report.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

During the 2019 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly enacted what will be the first statewide ban of expanded polystyrene foam. But maybe not in Maryland? Maryland politicians should not be criticized because this new law will no doubt be popular in the very progressive Maryland.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that blog.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 13, 2021

District Court for the Southern District of New York, struck down that same Interior legal opinion, It is not only a sin to kill a mockingbird, it is also a crime,”. In a parallel but not directly related action, on August 11, 2020, Judge Valerie Caproni, of the U.S. paraphrasing Harper Lee.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 30, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 30, 2022

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a group of daring, innovative and creative attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a boutique ESG driven non-law and consulting firm “powering sustainability, today, for tomorrow’s business.” yes, this blog will continue).

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 10, 2019

In 2018 there were 2,049 children in Maryland alone, reported to have at lease 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. So beyond matters of legal jeopardy, think justice, do the right thing and provide the required contract language and disclosures in real estate contracts. No level of lead exposure is considered safe.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2015

It was widely reported that the first green building litigation in the country was the 2007 trial court case of Southern Builders, Inc. Shaw Development, LLC, in the Circuit Court of Maryland for Somerset County, case no. That green building tax credit was monetized and sold to 5 Maryland taxpayers. 19-C-07-011405.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2015

It was widely reported that the first green building litigation in the country was the 2007 trial court case of Southern Builders, Inc. Shaw Development, LLC, in the Circuit Court of Maryland for Somerset County, case no. That green building tax credit was monetized and sold to 5 Maryland taxpayers. 19-C-07-011405.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 26, 2021

As we look back in this ‘year in review’ at our most read blog posts in 2021, at a time when most of us have accepted that we will never go back to exactly the way things were, we are no doubt collectively ready for a new year. And we are incredibly excited about the prospects for our clients to maximize the opportunities ESG presents.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 2, 2016

BuildingGreen will be hosting a series if meetups at their booth at this is a chance to meet and hangout with other green people. In a recent review of contracts involving green building construction projects, less than 20% had properly drafted provisions addressing green building matters. 1% were pursuing Green Globes.

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Green Geothermal. Green Mechanical Awards. Home > Green > Geothermal > California Geo Bill passes General Assembly. Maryland Passes Geothermal Heat Pump Bill. California Passes Green Statewide Building Code. Plumbing Contractor. Residential Plumbing. Wastewater. Piping Fire Sprinklers. Pipefitting.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 but more than a year later, it has not been adopted anywhere. Many code officials have concluded the 2018 IgCC is not a good building code, green or otherwise. for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I am pleased to be speaking on “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” at the Maryland State Bar Association 2021 Legal Excellence Week, Corporate Council Institute on November 16, 2021. You can register to attend in person or online. yes, this blog will continue).

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 12, 2021

And we wrote in a blog post in 2019 about a claim some 3,000 miles away on the opposite coast in Maryland, Net Zero Lawsuit filed Against Home Builder. Today, we are particularly cognizant of the fast evolving and changing dynamic between legal and technological factors that drive companies’ decision making processes.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In a conversation I had with Barry Giles, a true green building pioneer, in 2018, he said, “to truly regard sustainable buildings in a holistic manner, it’s our obligation to start with the supply chain serving the construction industry.”. The largest study of the typology of modern slavery in the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 24, 2019

Green Building Council is being applauded for the release last week of the new pilot credit intended “to reduce the risk that illegally sourced, harvested or traded wood products are used in building.”. Certified by a third-party legality verification program (see Annex 3). There are existing U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 24, 2020

There are likely intervening issues, including significantly that legal action by employees is almost all barred and claims limited to the workers’ compensation system where the employer has insurance. There is a great deal of uncertainty, at this time when we are still learning about this coronavirus. until there is a COVID-19 vaccine).

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 24, 2022

Additionally, this attorney commenter has done this and similar work for organizations voluntarily making climate related disclosures and has recently begun working with business required to measure and report GHG emissions to the State of Maryland under that state’s new mandatory statute. accountants cannot provide those certifications).

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. This blog post highlights the legal risk associated with ESG disclosures and proffers that through green building practices, like the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 by the U.S. Green Building Council , International Code Council , ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society. the IgCC and the LEED green building program,” the ICC was only responsible for Chapter 1, Scope and Administration of the 2018 IgCC.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that blog.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 5, 2020

And we are now seeing that legal doctrine legislatively implemented such that Mother Nature is now a proper person to pursue adjudication. This may be the first time in America that an ecosystem has been given the legal status of a “person.”.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 18, 2021

However, many legal commentators observing that President Biden having represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Moreover, while there is today no federal PFAS regulation, this is in advance of any rulemaking by the federal government, something the new Biden Administration has promised.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 22, 2013

It is one of Europe’s major centers of green biotechnologies and has its own incubation center. Flanders is home to more than 120 biotech companies, most of which belong to the health and green biotechnologies sectors. Maryland Gov. Freising, located just a few minutes north of Munich, is home of the Weihenstephan campus.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 12, 2016

The wind turbines operating at Buffalo’s green energy complex on Lake Erie generate enough electricity to power roughly 15,000 homes; the turbines are under contract to a local utility, Constellation Energy Resources. 3 Texas all exceeded 75 on the Index, followed by Maryland, Delaware, DC, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 9, 2022

Businesses often ask about including green power in ESG efforts. EPA’s Guide to Purchasing Green Power , while a bit dated, provides good information on the process of and strategies for procuring off site renewable energy. As opposed to the renewable energy portfolio standards adopted for utilities in many U.S.

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