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The NYC Public Design Commission recognizes 12 projects with its 2016 Excellence in Design Award

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Every year since 1983, New York City’s Public Design Commission has awarded projects with its Excellence in Design Awards, given to public projects in any of the city’s five boroughs. Selected from hundreds of submissions, the Commission reviewed the entries and chose 12 projects to receive the award for 2016.

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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

Green Building Law Update

And for projects registered since October 31, 2016 that means the LEED v4 ID+C: CI rating system. The CI v4 EAc1: Enhanced Commissioning credit goes farther than the fundamental commissioning incorporating changes from the v4 prerequisite that make this credit more advantageous and less first dollar cost intensive than in v 2009.

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

In the final days of 2015, Nevada became the front line in the looming nationwide fight over energy policy when the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada altered rates for net metering impacting homeowners with rooftop photovoltaic panels. It is not good energy policy. It is not good environmental policy.

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Maryland Vetoes Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Increase

Green Building Law Update

Specifically, Governor Hogan announced he was vetoing House Bill 1106 – Clean Energy Jobs – Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Revisions, as enacted in the just concluded 2016 Maryland General Assembly session. In 2016, electric suppliers must demonstrate they have accumulated RECs at a percentage of 15.9

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Miami Beach’s New Green Building Tax

Green Building Law Update

The new law is effective for all projects that apply for review after April 1, 2016, but as of July 8, 2016 the City has yet to collect the first dollar of the Sustainability Fee. However, a recent enactment by the City of Miami Beach is not being so widely applauded.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

Comments should be submitted on or before July 25, 2016 to be considered in the formation of the final rule, however, skeptics have suggested it may be the result in the Presidential election that determines if this Administration driven GHG litmus test has legs?

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

Comments should be submitted on or before July 25, 2016 to be considered in the formation of the final rule, however, skeptics have suggested it may be the result in the Presidential election that determines if this Administration driven GHG litmus test has legs?