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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

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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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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

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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?

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

The drafting process was widely criticized resulting in a document that has never been enacted anywhere, and likely should not ever be adopted as code. The reworked provisions for construction and plans for operation , now combined in chapter 10, are much more than systems commissioning. Sec 1001.3.2

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2018 IgCC – A Fast Paced Deep Dive

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The reworked provisions for construction and plans for operation , now combined in chapter 10, are much more than systems commissioning. Energy efficiency provisions were completely rewritten in the 2018 IgCC, including gone is the zEPI energy scoring. Sec 1001.3.2

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FEATURE STORY: Racing To Be Ready – U.S. Ports Prepare for Post Panamax Era

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At the Bayonne Bridge dedication ceremony, representatives from the Sydney Harbour Bridge Commission participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony where a pair of custom-made golden scissors was used. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2016. Army Corps of Engineers to increase the depth to 47-feet from the mouth of the St.