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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

actually 3 separate bills) expressly permitting PFAS (. PFAS are very persistent in the environment and in the human body, meaning they don’t break down, accumulating over time, and as such have been referred to as ‘forever chemicals’ making them an emergent environmental priority. It passed legislation (. perfluoroalkyl chemicals)?!

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Court Blows Away Permits for Wind Turbine Eagle Kills

Green Building Law Update

Fish and Wildlife Service rule allowing 30 year permits to “take” bald and golden eagles. The 2009 regulations themselves included but a few references to wind turbines. For instance, FWS cited “a company interested in siting a wind-power facility” as an example of an entity that “may qualify for a programmatic take permit.”

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Court Blows Away Permits for Wind Turbine Eagle Kills

Green Building Law Update

Fish and Wildlife Service rule allowing 30 year permits to “take” bald and golden eagles. ” The 2009 regulations themselves included but a few references to wind turbines. On August 11, a federal court set aside the U.S. and golden eagles., and golden eagles., ” 74 Fed. However the Court in Shearwater et al v.

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Detail Item and Reference Plane Settings

Revit OpEd

When this family was made they paid no attention to the IsReference setting for the reference planes. The Center (Left/Right) IsReference setting is assigned to what should be the Left reference plane. In fact the none of the other reference planes have appropriate names or IsReference settings either.

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Okay to Kill Eagles with Wind Turbines But Not with Solar Panels or.

Green Building Law Update

Department of the Interior issued the long awaited final regulation permitting “the take [injure, kill or otherwise disturb] of bald eagles and golden eagles” for wind energy projects. And there are at least seven other cases of bird kills by wind turbine that have been referred by U.S. Last week the U.S.

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Ohio Court Reforms Construction Contract to Correct “Manifest Absurdity” in Termination for Convenience Term

Constructlaw

BoMar argued that the cross-reference to Section 13.1 was a typographical error, and the parties intended to refer to Section 14.1.3, The Owner argued that the parties could not have intended to refer to Section 14.1.3 The Owner argued that the parties could not have intended to refer to Section 14.1.3

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Bird Friendly Building now the Law in Howard County

Green Building Law Update

What [the bill] really is referring to is these big, glass buildings today that literally threaten the existence of birds because birds fly into the glass, unable to realize that it is glass, and they are dying by the millions as a result of these big, glass buildings,” said County Council chair, Deb Jung, who sponsored the bill.