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Green building ratings

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • February 10 2013

The General Services Administration issued findings February 6 from a federal government review of green building ratings systems and is seeking

D.C. leads in LEED

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2013

The U.S. Green Building Council released rankings January 23 showing that Washington, D.C. significantly leads the country in the amount of building

DC building efficiency reporting

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • January 27 2013

The District of Columbia's Department of Environment published a regulation January 16 requiring owners or property managers to evaluate the energy

Solar energy zone land preservation

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 16 2012

The Department of Interior approved a plan that will be published December 17 to withdraw 303,900 acres of public land from mining claims to preserve the areas for solar energy development

Renewed commitment to ee legislation

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 2 2012

Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said November 27 that they are preparing an aggressive push for their energy efficiency legislation in the next Congress

RE leasing streamlined

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 2 2012

The Department of Interior finalized a rule last week that will streamline the leasing approval process on tribal land to encourage increased commercial development like renewable energy projects

Shifting away from LEED

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • November 18 2012

Turner Construction Company released a report November 8 concluding that companies are less likely to use the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system now than in recent years

Court rejects challenge to FHFA directive

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

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled November 9 that a 2010 Federal Housing Finance Agency directive regarding the financing of local clean energy programs by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is not tantamount to a rulemaking that can be challenged in court

CA plans for heat-related health risks

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • October 21 2012

California’s Climate Action Team intends to release this spring final guidance detailing plans to address heat-related health risks associated with climate change

CA solar property tax

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • October 7 2012

The California State Board of Equalization issued recently final draft guidelines explaining the new construction property tax exclusion for active solar energy systems