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EPA Releases List of Cities With the Most Energy Star-Certified Buildings
For the third consecutive year, EPA released a list of the cities with the most Energy Star-certified buildings. For the second year in a row, Los Angeles was the top city, with 510 Energy...
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Green Building Law Update Service Recognized as one of “Top 50 Environmental...
Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law is proud to announce that two of its blogs, the Climate Law Blog and the Green Building Law Update Service, were recently recognized as two of the...
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Report Finds that Existing Technologies Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions...
On May 16, 2011, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report that found that greenhouse gas emissions from residential, commercial and public buildings, which currently account for about...
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Report Finds that Climate Change Could Affect Indoor Air Quality
On June 7, 2011, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies issued a report finding that climate change could affect indoor environments as outdoor conditions change. In particular, the...
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Report Finds that Better Buildings Initiative Would Create Over 100,000 Jobs...
On June 13, 2011, a study funded by the Real Estate Roundtable, USGBC, and the Natural Resources Defense Council found that implementing the Obama Administration’s Better Buildings Initiative (BBI)...
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New York City Releases Energy Benchmarking Report for Municipal Buildings
In November 2011, New York City released its first Energy Benchmarking Report for NYC municipal buildings. Besides giving the raw numbers, the report highlights the benchmarking results for libraries,...
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Report Finds Support for Underwriting Building Retrofits
In January 2012, Deutsche Bank announced the release of a report that examined 230 affordable multifamily housing projects in New York City that had undergone energy efficiency retrofits. The goal of...
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Report Quantifies the Environmental Value of Building Reuse
Recently, the Preservation Green Lab of the National Trust for Historic Preservation issued a report that confirms the environmental benefit of building reuse. The report concludes, among other...
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Urban Green Council Releases Report Finding that Green Codes Task Force’s...
On February 2, 2012, the Urban Green Council released a report finding that New York City is on track to meet its goal of lowering carbon emissions, energy consumption, and waste by following...
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Recent Report Quantifies the Market for Energy Efficiency Retrofits
In March, The Rockefeller Foundation and DB Climate Change Advisors released a research paper entitled United States Building Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Market Sizing and Financing Models. Among...
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