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Recent Legal Library Articles
EPA Issues New Phase I Standard Effective Immediately
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:09-05:00Friday, January 10th, 2014|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. In an effort to promote and expand the emergent body of sustainability and green building law, I blog weekly. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not ...
GSA Selects Both Green Globes And LEED For Federal Buildings
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:11-05:00Thursday, October 10th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. In an effort to promote and expand the emergent body of sustainability and green building law, I am blogging. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not ...
From Love Canal to a New Option for a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:21-05:00Friday, September 20th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. In an effort to promote and expand the emergent body of sustainability and green building law, I began blogging. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not ...
Green Marketing is Huge and Accelerating
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:15-05:00Tuesday, September 10th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
Green marketing presents an enormously valuable strategy for increasing brand value – cutting across all sectors. And the new emphasis on building materials and product makeup in LEED v4® will greatly favor environmentally conscious brands and businesses, far beyond LEED’s influence on the real estate ...
LEED v4 Buildings Can Register Beginning in November 2013
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:19-05:00Saturday, July 20th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
The U.S. Green Building Council announced last week that LEED v4®, the newest version of its green building rating system had been approved by an affirmative vote of more than 86% of those in the consensus body of members. The USGBC all but created the ...
Resilience in Building is the Hot New Topic in Real Estate
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:17-05:00Wednesday, July 10th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
In recent days, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a resilience plan with 250 action items to increase the resilience of buildings and infrastructure across New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Governor O’Malley of Maryland issued an executive order with the single resilience edict that all ...
LEED Passes First Green Light on Route to Federal Governmentwide Use
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:22-05:00Monday, May 20th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
Last week, the Green Building Advisory Committee recommended to the U.S. General Services Administration that “GSA strongly encourage the use of the LEED standard across the government.” For the good of the environmental industrial complex This is huge, not only because the federal government operates ...
Green Building Laws in the 2013 Maryland Legislature
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:20:20-05:00Friday, May 10th, 2013|Categories: Environmental Law|
During the 2013 session of the Maryland General Assembly, legislators introduced 2,610 bills and by midnight on sine die, 90 days later on April 9, the legislature had passed more than 766 of those bills. This was not a very green year. Only a very ...




