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Michigan proposal review report

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 8 2013

On April 4, the Sierra Club released its report, "The State of Detroit's Environment: An Initial Assessment Using the Framework of Environmental

NY brownfields program criticized

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2012

A report issued on June 7 by Environmental Advocates of New York says that tax credits issued under the state’s brownfields program have failed to provide areas most in need of development with relief

California town to require solar panels on new construction

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

On May 6, the city council of Sebastopol, CA voted to approve a measure requiring all new residential and commercial buildings to be fitted with

Judicial streamlining legislation signed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 2 2011

California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed two bills September 27 to streamline the environmental review process for a proposed 72,000-seat football stadium in downtown Los Angeles and other large statewide projects

Solar Decathlon opens

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 25 2011

University teams featuring over 4,000 students from around the world opened the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 September 22 to showcase 19 highly energy efficient solar-powered houses

Green building standards

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 24 2012

The General Services Administration announced last week that it will issue a recommendation this fall on whether the federal government should continue using a third-party certification system as the primary federal standard for green buildings

ID EE legislation

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2012

Idaho enacted legislation (H.B. 485) April 3, retroactive to January 1, replacing the insulation deduction for existing residents with a deduction for energy efficiency upgrades

Military building efficiency overhaul

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2012

On March 7, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the military’s budget for military installations, environment, energy, and base realignment and closure programs

Mexico to implement energy efficiency standards for residential buildings

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Mexico
  • -
  • August 7 2011

Under the Draft Official Mexican Standard, published March 14, Mexico plans to establish standards requiring new residential buildings to obtain a certain level of energy efficiency, primarily through insulation

Indirect land use criteria may threaten biofuels

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • European Union
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  • May 8 2011

The European Renewable Ethanol Association and the European farm trade group COPA-COGECA warned May 3 that plans under consideration by the European Commission to add indirect land use criteria for biofuel production would severely harm the industry