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Recent Environmental Law Articles
Arc is Electrifying Green Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:20-05:00Sunday, November 26th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
Next week will be a year since the launch of Arc. Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps ...
LEED v4.1 Announced by USGBC at Greenbuild
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:20-05:00Sunday, November 12th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
The announcement of the upcoming release of the new LEED version 4.1 by the U.S. Green Building Council was no doubt the biggest story at Greenbuild 2017 in Boston last week. And that is saying a lot because Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and ...
Arbitration is Why There is So Little Litigation in Green Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:19-05:00Sunday, November 5th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
It is surprising to many in the environmental industrial complex that there has been relatively little litigation arising out of green building. There have been only a very modest number of cases commenced in courts across the country involving construction of green buildings. The reason ...
The Systole and Diastole in Recycling
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:18-05:00Sunday, October 29th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
Recycling is not new. 11,000 years before Christ the people in the Nile valley recognized the intrinsic value of reusing waste. But maybe not since that dawn of civilization has recycling undergone the wide fluctuation, good and bad, that we are seeing right now. The ...
EPA Ends Perverse Practice of “Sue and Settle”
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:17-05:00Sunday, October 22nd, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
“The days of regulation through litigation are over,” according to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. In fulfilling his promise to end the practice of regulation through litigation that has harmed the American public, the EPA Administrator issued an agency wide directive on October 16, 2017 designed ...
Rhode Island goes for LEED for Neighborhood Development and SITES
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:13-05:00Sunday, October 15th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
The State of Rhode Island is expanding its longstanding Green Buildings Act adding built landscapes to the list of public projects that must be built to recognized green building standards. Rhode Island has since 2008 mandated the public construction projects larger than 5,000 gross square ...
50 Shades of Green in Montgomery County
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:12-05:00Sunday, October 1st, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
Green building will remain mandatory for new construction in Montgomery County, Maryland and effective December 1, 2017, the International Green Construction Code 2012 will be a permitted alternative. Montgomery County was among the first local jurisdictions in the country, in 2008, to adopt a mandatory ...
The Second Best Way to Mitigate Your Risk in Green Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:11-05:00Sunday, September 24th, 2017|Categories: Environmental Law|
The best way to mitigate risk in your green building project are properly drafted contract documents prepared by this law firm or by another attorney with green building experience. That may sound self serving, but it is true. As I posted in this blog less ...