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Green Buildings are Subsidizing Conventional Buildings Stymying Climate Progress

Green Building Law Update

Green building bonds, which are higher rated and could provide cheaper capital for green building projects, can correct the current market that prices mortgages, green building or nongreen, the same, stimulating the economy and repairing the planet. Mike Italiano, a founder of the U.S.

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Pollution Legal Liability Insurance More Valuable as a Result of High Court Ruling

Green Building Law Update

Insurance companies cannot recover environmental cleanup costs paid to their insured under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, commonly known as Superfund, from another Potentially Responsible Party ( unless their insured had first pursued a separate claim to recover the cleanup costs from that PRP).

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Insurance expert: Managing green liability risk not so different from 'normal' risk mitigation

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Worries about legal liability have long dogged the sustainable building movement, but insurance expert Karen Erger (Locton Companies) and attorney Eric Singer (Ice Miller LLP) say sustainability lawsuits are caused by the same types of issues that have always prompted clients to sue AEC firms. read more. "The

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Did You Miss Greenbuild?

Green Building Law Update

Over the past year, I've been lucky enough to get to know Jeremy Sigmon at the US Green Building Council. It has been a busy year for him with the introduction of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC). I will also be participating in an upcoming green building legal webinar with the ABA Fidelity and Surety Law Committee.

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Suing But Not Because it was Not a Green Building

Green Building Law Update

With the maturation of the green building industrial complex it has become clear there is no more or additional liability associated with constructing a green building versus a similar non green structure. As with the vast majority of claims involving a green building that this law firm reviews (.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Green buildings generate large quantities of data. In an age when many have opinions about Edward Snowden’s disclosures, foreign state sponsored hacking, and Uber’s massive customer data hack, most people have not considered matters of data protection from their real estate, green building or otherwise.

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Construction Law – April 2025

Construction Law

Legal terms explained Tse Wei Lim and Yun Wen Soh of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP explain what decennial liability means. Only claims against bodies subject to a relevant liability will succeed, the TCC has ruled. A fresh approach to drafting and risk allocation will be needed, they argue.