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Commercial and residential developers, builders and landlords face new storm water regulations

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • May 21 2013

On May 8, 2013, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board approved a new municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permit that will have

Industry and developers affected by changes to South Carolina’s general permit for Stormwater discharges from construction activities

  • Nexsen Pruet
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  • USA
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  • May 10 2013

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) has been delegated authority by the EPA to regulate stormwater discharges

Will green codes LEED to litigation?

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 19 2012

A deep recession and lethargic recovery have taken their toll on the U.S

The new MDE General Permit for Stormwater from Construction Activity

  • Venable LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 9 2008

The Maryland Department of the Environment (“MDE”) recently released a new draft version of the General Permit for Stormwater Associated with Construction Activity (the “Draft Permit” or the “Permit”) that, if adopted, will replace the existing interim General Permit (the “Interim Permit”) that expires December 31, 2008

Unique challenges for project owners and contractors in the aftermath of a hurricane

  • Smith Currie & Hancock
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  • USA
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  • December 5 2012

Hurricane Sandy caused immense devastation along the East Coast

Bain v. Vertex Architects: firm “failed to diligently pursue and obtain leed for homes certification from USGBC”

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 18 2011

An interesting green building litigation that was filed last fall last fall in Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court has flown under the radar

USA Today and U.S.G.B.C. spar over green building

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 25 2012

The newspaper USA Today has flipped Kermit the Frog’s colorful lamentation “It ain’t easy being green” and taken aim at the U.S. Green Building Council (“U.S.G.B.C.”) by asking the pointed question, “In U.S. building industry, is it too easy to be green?”

Battle lines drawn in Clean Construction or Demolition Debris rulemaking

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 5 2012

Rulemaking procedures underway before the Illinois Pollution Control Board’s (Board) in the First Notice of proposed amendments to Clean Construction or Demolition Debris (CCDD) Fill Operations (35 Ill.Adm.Code 1100) show that battle lines have been drawn over how CCDD will be regulated in the State of Illinois

The International Green Construction Code: raising the bar from the ground up

  • McCarter & English LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 20 2012

Recently the International Code Council published the International Green Construction Code ("IgCC"

EPA’s authority to remove opt-out provision from lead-based paint renovation rule upheld

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 13 2012

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) authority to remove a lead-based-paint renovation rule provision that allowed contractors to opt out of certain protections against lead exposure