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- HOW WILL GSA RESPOND TO CONGRESSIONAL OPPOSITION TO LEED 2012?
- Nike, Adidas Pledge to Stop Toxic Discharges From Supply Chain by 2020 – A pledge that may be easier to make than keep
- Will Clean Technologies Stump the Public?
- Has Honda Figured Out How to Kick Start Alt Fuel Infrastructure?
- Fracking Regulatory Activities Are Moving Ahead
- “Well construction, well construction and well construction.”
- EPA Provides New Handbook and Decision Trees for Siting Renewable Energy on Potentially Contaminated Land
- A Bright Light on Big Solar
- Has US Biofuels Growth Been Slowed by the US Political Season?
- Is There A “Fresh” Wind Blowing in the Future for Renewable Energy?
- Fruit Juice Scares Now Prompting Proposed Legislation
- IRS Releases Two Private Letter Rulings on Depreciation of Energy Producing Property
- Fish and Wildlife Service Issues New Siting Guidelines For Wind Projects
- When Does an ‘In Paying Quantities’ Lease Terminate?
- SUN SUBSIDIES
- Is a New Battery to Revolutionize – Everything Electrical?
- Future Wind Farm Development Gets Boost From IRS Ruling
- Will $5 Gas Drive Clean Tech?
- Americans Accepting Global Warming … And It’s Personal
- Free Pepper Hamilton Webinar: Marcellus Shale Update – A Changing Legal Landscape in Pennsylvania
- PA/NJ Sustainability Symposium 2012 Scheduled for March 29th in Philadelphia
- China on a Solar Roll
- Natural Gas: Creating Demand For All That Supply
- UPCOMING PHILADELPHIA EVENT: URBAN SUSTAINABILITY FORUM
- Interior Department Finding New Ways to Promote Solar and Wind Energy Development on Contaminated or Disturbed Lands in Arizona
- Third Public Comment Period on LEED 2012 Opens Today, March 1, 2012
- Free Pepper Hamilton Webinar: Marcellus Shale Update – A Changing Legal Landscape in Pennsylvania
- DOE Encourages Use of Combined Heat and Power Systems to Comply with the EPA Boiler MACT Rule
- Defense Department Signs Sustainability Agreement with EPA
- Guest Author Commentary: Nanomaterial Product Development Amidst Regulatory Uncertainty
- Obama’s “Green Book” Proposes An Additional $5 Billion in Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit
- New DOE Funding Opportunity for Renewable Energy Innovations
- Greening the Commonwealth?
- EPA Data Shows Power Plants are Top Emitters of Green House Gases in 2010
- Another Chance To Weigh In On “Sustainability”
- New Year: New Resources for Renewable Energy Developers
- Deadline to Register for California’s GHG Cap and Trade Program Nears
- Conflict Minerals Final Rule Deadline Postponed Again: SEC Makes it Official
- EPA’S OFFICE OF WATER SEEKING INDUSTRY INPUT ON HOW TO INTEGRATE SUSTAINABILITY INTO WATER REGULATORY PROGRAM
- Year End Nanotechnology Developments
- International Green Construction Code: Jumping the Gun and Veering off Track?
- THE WIND AND THE SUN
- Compare and Contrast: The Renewables Markets in the U.S. and India
- EPA’S DRAFT REPORT ON FRACKING IN WYOMING — MANY QUESTIONS ARE EMERGING
- USGBC Releases “Best of Green Schools” List for 2011
- California’s Cap and Trade Program Back on Track
- INTERNATIONAL GREEN CONSTRUCTION CODE: FINALLY FINAL (OR ALMOST)
- Solar Panel Trade International Trade Case Moves Forward
- An Investment Banker’s Renewable Energy Commentary: Part II: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
- The RIO+20 Conference — Continuing the Process of Defining Sustainable Development
- Guest Author Commentary: The Sun and the Wind Are for Sale in India – New Opportunities for Global Investors
- The ISO Continues To Solicit Participants in Nanotechnology Standards Technical Advisory Group
- An Investment Banker’s Renewable Energy Commentary Part I: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
- DOE Backing Efforts to Lower Solar Project Non-Hardware Costs
- REMEMBER WHEN CLIMATE CHANGE WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE?
- EPA and DOE Announce New Initiative to Develop Renewable Energy on Potentially Contaminated Sites
- California Proposes Rules for Safer Consumer Products
- “Betting on the Sun” Webinar – Renewable Energy in Today’s Market
- NYC’S GREENER, GREATER BUILDINGS: ENERGY EFFICIENCY ORDINANCE IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDING
- New California Supply-Chain Disclosure Requirements Will Have Far-Reaching Implications
- Is Marcellus Shale Gas a “Mineral”?
- It’s Not A Greenhouse Gas, But . . .
- Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett Takes Steps to Move Recommendations into Actions
- Why Doesn’t Somebody Keep Track of State Regulations on Fracking?
- Does DOE Have any Business Meddling in Building Codes?
- NEW FRONT OPENING ON SOLAR PANEL IMPORTS?
- Green Building and Environmental Responsibility CLE
- Does a deed reservation for “minerals” include Marcellus Shale gas? Maybe; Maybe not.
- Corporations Moving Ahead On Climate Change Efforts
- Oil Sands Pipeline Approval Process Moving into Final Stage
- A Guarantee for Renewable Energy?
- ENERGY STAR® Expands Its Reach
- DOE Awards More Than $145 Million for Solar Power
- High Profile U.S. Solar Manufacturing Bankruptcies Raise Questions
- No Summer Break for Would-Be Federal Fracking Regulators
- Pepper Hamilton Partner Contributing Author of Aspatore Special Report: Navigating Legal Issues around the Marcellus Shale
- Technology investment relating to Marcellus shale: recovery, remediation, and renewable energy
- Lawsuit Against USGBC: End of Story?
- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE REQUIREMENTS EXPAND TO MORE FEDERAL AGENCIES
- Innovative Insurance Options Emerging to Meet Needs of Marcellus Shale Operations
- Data Furnaces – Using Computer Servers to Heat Homes and Buildings
- DOE Announces New Funding for Renewable Energy Clean Tech Projects
- A Butterfly Effect for Shale Gas?
- Six Principles to Meet Global Demand for Clean Energy Technology
- More Than The Army’s Uniforms Are “Green” These Days
- Volcanoes May Decrease the Rate of Global Warming
- Recent News Highlights Mixed Picture of US Clean Tech Market Competitiveness
- Event: The Future of Green Buildings Webcast
- The California Cap & Trade Program Takes Shape
- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — AN INCREASINGLY SIGNIFICANT FACTOR FOR BUSINESSES TO CONSIDER
- Event: Hot Topics in Renewable Energy
- Greenbuild 2011 Announces Educational Program Schedule
- Word to the Wise: Treasury Providing New Guidance on Cost Eligibility for 1603 Grants as the IG Begins to Audit Recipients
- DOE Pumping New Money into Geothermal and Energy Efficiency Technology Incentives
- Michigan Retools its Brownfield Redevelopment Program
- EPA Identifies Pennsylvania and Other Sites for Fracking Study
- Fracking Fluids—Transparency?
- No Surprises Here: The U.S. Supreme Court Holds That The Clean Air Act and EPA’s Actions Displace Plaintiffs’ Federal Nuisance Claims Based on GHG Emissions
- A Big Sustainability Shoe Drops: Interim Rule Will Amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation
- Obama’s Better Building Initiative May Create 114,000 New Jobs
- ENERGY STAR BUILDINGS: IS ENERGY STAR GOING TO LOSE ITS SHINE?
- Natural Gas — Balancing Supply and Demand
- Sunny Forecast for Solar Power
- Wolverine Gold Rush? Michigan’s Answer to the Marcellus Shale
- Multi-Dimensional Green Banking: Making Green by Going Green
- Renewable Energy Tax Quandary: What Happens to the Production Energy Tax Credit When There is a Surplus of Electricity?
- Congress Asked For It, But Now What?
- NEW PENNSYLVANIA LAW MAY MAKE “GREEN” BUILDING CODE MODIFICATIONS TOUGHER TO PASS
- Latest Developments on Fracking: Never a Dull Moment!
- Taxpayer-Friendly Changes in Federal Renewable Energy Tax Guidance Document
- SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER COMPANIES CAN BE SUED FOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE
- Sustainable High-Performance Health Care Facilities: Proposed New Standard
- Sustainability-Counsel.com Selected for LexisNexis Top 50 for 2011
- PA DEP Urges Halt To Disposal Of Marcellus Shale Wastewater At 16 Treatment Plants
- Will Oil Prices Drive US Clean Tech?
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ENERGY AND COMMERCE RANKING MEMBERS ISSUE REPORT ON CHEMICALS USED IN FRACKING
- Special Opportunity for Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs: USDOE offers reduced-fee licenses to national laboratory technology
- GM Bankruptcy Properties Now Funded at $773 Million for Redevelopment: New Opportunities for Developers, Renewable Energy Providers, Investors, and Entrepreneurs
- Good News on the Renewable Energy Tax Front
- SETTLEMENT IN MARCELLUS ROYALTY LITIGATION
- Sustainability: Increasingly a Priority for Business – Not “Feel Good” — Reasons
- TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR NYC’S GREENER, GREATER BUILDINGS
- EPA Moves to Jump Start Renewable Energy Projects
- PBI Environmental Law Forum Scheduled for April 6-7, 2011 in Harrisburg
- Record Number of Clean Technology Venture Investment Deals in 2010
- Brownfields 2011 Scheduled for April 3-5, 2011 in Philadelphia
- American Infrastructure Bank Proposal: New Lifeblood for Energy Projects?
- EPA’s Authority To Regulate Greenhouse Gases To Be Stopped In Its Tracks?
- Renewable Energy Tax Grants: New Ruling Sheds Light on Appealability of Denied Applications
- DOE’S SUNSHOT PROGRAM: BOLDLY GOING TOWARD SOLAR COST PARITY
- The Regulatory Reform Executive Order — An Opportunity to Make It Happen
- The Current State of Chemicals Regulation – Will your business be affected?
- So You Want To Conduct A BEPA On Your Building …
- “Name and Shame” Scheme for Conflict Minerals
- Significant IRS Ruling on Energy Property Qualifying for Investment Tax Credit
- Legal Fight Continues in Pennsylvania Fracking Case
- Gas for Oil—A Different Meaning for “Replacement”
- Energy Efficiency: More Regulation and Enforcement Is On The Way
- Class Action Lawsuit Against USGBC Take Two: New Cast of Characters, Same Story Line Alleging False Advertising and Deceptive Trade Practices
- Hot Off the Presses: EPA Sends Controversial Fracking Study Plan to its Science Advisory Board for Review
- Sustainability-counsel.com Nominated for LexisNexis Top 50 Environmental & Climate Change Blogs
- Maybe Related, Maybe Not, But Still Interesting
- California’s Cap and Trade Program Placed on Hold
- A Cleantech ‘Sputnik Moment’: What Comes Next?
- GBCI Creates Four New LEED Programs
- Philadelphia Shuns Home Grown Natural Gas (at least for now)
- Energy Conservation Codes: A New Battlefront
- Renewable Energy: What Makes the Deal Succeed?
- Supreme Court Nixes Review of Katrina Climate Change Case
- A Necessary, But Not Sufficient, Step Toward Federal Environmental Framework For Carbon Capture, Injection, and Sequestration
- Hexavalent Chromium: New Developments
- SUSTAINABILITY PROVIDES AN INCENTIVE TO REDUCE “TOXIC CHEMICALS” IN PRODUCTS
- California’s Greenhouse Gas Cap and Trade Program – One Step Closer to Implementation
- Extension of Renewable Energy Tax Grants Comes Not a Moment Too Soon
- Reform of Michigan’s Environmental Cleanup Program
- New U.S. Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative Launched
- COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA AFFIRMS USE OF SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS TO REGULATE ZONING ASPECTS OF OIL AND GAS WELLS
- Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Connecticut v. American Electric Power
- EPA Implements Two New Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Monitoring Rules
- EPA and the National Academies of Science Announce a Far Reaching Study to Develop A Framework and Operational Strategy For Implementing Sustainability in EPA Decision-making
- EPA Draft Criteria for Design for the Environment Program
- “Fracking” Developments at the Federal Level
- Recent Marcellus Shale Decision
- Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator Available at EPA Website
- Free Pepper Hamilton Webinar Series: Marcellus Shale: A Primer for Business
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Extends Green Technology Pilot Program
- User-Friendly State-By-State Survey of Factors Driving Renewable Energy Projects Now Available
- Department of Interior Signs Offshore Wind Project Lease
- GSA To Require LEED® Gold
- World Bank’s International Finance Corporation Steps Up Investment in Climate-Change Related Projects
- The Future of Expanded Oil Sands Imports Moves a Step Closer
- Free Pepper Hamilton Webinar Series: Marcellus Shale: A Primer for Business
- EPA Takes Next Steps in Facilitating Deployment of Renewable Energy Generation on Brownfields and Contaminated Sites
- Solar Industry Jobs in Pennsylvania
- Gifford Files Class Action Lawsuit Against USGBC
- Launch of LEED® Pilot Credit Library
- EPA Extends Public Comment Period for Proposed Coal Ash Regulations
- It’s Not You, It’s Me: EPA To “Phase Down Services” For Its Climate Leaders Program
- Seminar: Business Opportunities in Mexico – Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
- New WIPO tool helps users search for worldwide patent applications relating to green technologies
- EPA Seeking Public Comment on Role in Advancing Sustainable Products
- GHG Tailoring Rule Implementation Strategies – A State-by-State Analysis
- Assessing Your Current Leases for Implementation of LEED®
- Considerations for Design Services Agreements for Projects Seeking LEED® or Similar Certification
- Philadelphia Networking Seminar: CleanTech & Alternative Energy – Introduction of Brazilian and French Markets
- National Law Review Guest Blogging
- EPA Fracking Study Moves Forward, Comments Due September 28, 2010
- Green Affordable Housing
- RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCIAL INCENTIVES: Interested Parties Scramble for More Time
- IRS Issues Interim Guidance Regarding Refined Coal
- DOE Ratchets Up Enforcement Of Energy Efficiency Requirements Against Appliance, Plumbing, and Lighting Manufacturers, Importers, and Private Labelers
- Solar Energy Tax Ruling Of Note
- Little League Baseball and Natural Gas—An Odd Couple
- Federal Agencies to Explore State of Research on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related Neurodevelopment Disorders
- New England Governors and Canadian Provincial Premiers Agree to Consider Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
- Sustainability and the Philadelphia Navy Yard
- Release of New ASTM Standards for Sustainability in Building
- DOE Extends Filing Deadline to Apply for Renewable Energy Loan Guarantees
- Demonstrating Carbon Capture Sequestration One Step at a Time
- LEED® 101
- Recycling Land
- Green Credits and Incentives in Maryland and Virginia
- HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Grant Program Deadline Approaching
- Energy & Water: Innovation and Opportunity in India Webinar – August 5, 2010
- Government Accountability Office Recommends Changes in Federal Loan Guarantee Program
- The Oil Sand Pipeline Controversies — A Hot Debate Grows Hotter (Part II)
- California Sues Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHFA for Interfering with California’s PACE Programs
- Oil Sands – Tough Policy Choices and Strong Views
- Welcome to Sustainability-Counsel.com
- What Are GSA’s 2011 Green Building Priorities? Learn the Top Ten Opportunities – Security & Sustainability Forum Free Webinar
- Key Incentive Programs for Renewable Energy
- Pennsylvania State Buildings Going Green?
