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Model Sustainability and Green Building Initiatives for a More Verdant City and Town

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A package of local government bills introduced on January 29th aim to ensure that Montgomery County, Maryland remains at the sustainability forefront. Bill 6-14 would create an Office of Sustainability. County Green LEED Local Government Sustainability building v4' The County Council in all Democrat and very Blue.

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GRESB is Huge with $2.3 Trillion in Real Estate so Follow the Money

Green Building Law Update

Trillion reported their environmental, social and governance information to Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). A relative newcomer, the GRESB real estate assessment is becoming recognized as the global standard for portfolio level sustainability reporting in the real estate sector. REITs in total participated.

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PACE Programs are Stepping Up the Pace

Green Building Law Update

PACE state enabling statutes generally authorize local governments to work with private sector lenders to provide upfront low interest financing to property owners for qualified projects (e.g., What is wanting is the broad regulatory framework that enables the ‘off balance sheet’ financing that is PACE lending.

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ESG Disclosure Simplification Act Passes Committee But Will Fail

Green Building Law Update

Although there is little if any chance that the bill will become law given the current politics in Washington, DC, the bill’s passage in the House Committee highlights that issues of ESG disclosures continuing to be pressing. But again, there is no realistic scenario under which this becomes law. The failure of H.R.4329,

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PACE Bill Due in Baltimore City

Green Building Law Update

PACE state enabling statutes generally authorize local governments to engage private sector lenders to provide upfront low interest financing to property owners for qualified projects (e.g., providing opportunities to separately finance the top 20% of a construction project or.),

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

This announcement by the largest residential solar installer and lessor in the United States, and whose big banks and large corporate investors in its project finance funds that fund its leases and power purchase agreement options, are the largest beneficiaries of net metering laws across 44 states and Washington DC, might be hyperbole and an attempt (..)

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Toyota Moving North American Headquarters to Plano, TX; Generating 4,000 Jobs

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Toyota’s North American finance arm also plans to move its headquarters to this new shared campus. Toyota will construct a new, environmentally sustainable campus facility in Plano, which is expected to take two or more years to construct after groundbreaking in the fall of 2014.