There were no state troopers at the Vermont border last week inspecting food packages for GMO labels. And with this federal law the U.S. will not have a patchwork of different State or local laws banning GMO food products or requiring GMO labels. Whether, the good, the ugly, the bad (.. the title of my favorite spaghetti Western) or some other attribute associated with this Congressional act is your pleasure, GMO labels are coming to your supermarket.

Imposing a new tax on the failure of a landowner constructing a building to obtain a third party green building certification (while obviously not in the same order of magnitude as the penalty of death imposed by the Code of Hammurabi for failure to construct a building properly) also raises the very real issue of how efficacious that sustainable project will be when the owner is simply pursuing a number of points to avoid imposition of the impact fee.

The recent unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States, is a win for small businesses and very good for those that work on Green Globes projects. In an effort to encourage small businesses, Congress has mandated that federal ...

SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system. SITES is modeled after the LEED green building rating system. And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., the USGBC associated certification body for LEED, announced it had ...

While compromise on Capitol Hill is a big deal, this bill greatly expands the authority of EPA and will have implications not just for the chemical manufacturers, processors and importers, as TSCA had in the past, but now also for many more businesses.

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions. In 2015, ...

Maryland Governor Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., vetoed an increase in the State’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard that would have resulted in higher electricity prices across the State. This push back against an ever increasing legislatively mandated subsidized renewable energy ‘market’ portends a national trend. Specifically, ...

Despite only nascent interest by state elected officials in embracing any of the environmental issues of the day and the green building industry being all but absent from policy making this year, savvy players in the environmental industrial complex will find business opportunities to lead and profit in matters of green building and sustainability, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws.