Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 24, 2021

There is legal risk associated with ESG disclosures and I have assisted companies for years in mitigating their liability while still being responsive to the trend of investor demands for these disclosures. and the legal adage that bad facts rise to bad law may certainly have been at play in those instances.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The Green Business Certification Inc.’s addresses the issue differently, when it prescribes, “building on green field sites below the 500 year floodplain is not permitted.”. Use Legally Logged Wood from Ecologically Managed Forests , recognizes “FSC Certified Wood” only, (. trillion for Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with $1.9

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Guidelines Certification Green Drafting 180

Green Building Law Update

APRIL 30, 2014

While there are a patchwork of current laws for legal marijuana that vary from state to state, and legislation is pending in at least 6 states, it is clear that there has been a major shift in attitudes across the country to now allow marijuana smoking for medical and even recreational purposes.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 31, 2016

The complaint filed Superior Court for the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts claims the decision exceeds the authority of the Commission, was legally untenable, unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious, and violated the rights of the members of First Parish to the free exercise of their religious beliefs under Article II of the Massachusetts (..)

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Commissioning Massachusetts Certification Legal 120

Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wrote a blog post earlier this year, LEED can Help Mitigate Legal Risks in ESG Disclosures , that included the quote, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has publicly said, “we are seeing a similar scarlet letter phenomenon in today’s modern, but no less flawed world” but it is not Hester Prynne’s “A” for adultery in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in (..)

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

While we all have been focused on the Presidential election results, cannabis law reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was on the ballot, from California to Massachusetts, on November 8, making clear the that the public is ready to put the harsh prohibitionist pot policies of the past behind us.

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Organization Certification Claims Sustainability 120

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JULY 2, 2013

This follows more than five years of legal and bureaucratic wrangling that have thus far kept the project from becoming a reality. Fenway Center will also feature one of the largest private solar power plants in Massachusetts, and the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority’s first net-zero-energy train station.

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Boston Massachusetts Architecture Transportation 49

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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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. Massachusetts rapidly is expanding smart meter growth and conducting trials for time-of-use and critical peak pricing tariffs.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 21, 2014

The sites include the Greene and Sumter Renewal Community, made up of both counties, the Mobile Renewal Community, which includes Prichard and a section of east Mobile, and the Southern Alabama Renewal Community, which includes Wilcox County and parts of Butler, Conecuh, Dallas, Hale, Lowndes, Marengo, Monroe and Perry Counties.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 15, 2014

The sites include the Greene and Sumter Renewal Community, made up of both counties, the Mobile Renewal Community, which includes Prichard and a section of east Mobile, and the Southern Alabama Renewal Community, which includes Wilcox County and parts of Butler, Conecuh, Dallas, Hale, Lowndes, Marengo, Monroe and Perry Counties.

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