Category: Green Building LEED News
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USGBC and human health
Category: Current News Published on: 3 Jan 2014 Feature image: …
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LEED Addenda and Interpretations Update: January 2014
Category: Resource/Link List Published on: 3 Jan 2014 Feature image: …
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Exxon to Face Criminal Charges for 50,000+ Gallon Fracking Wastewater Spill
By Emily Atkin Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy will have to face criminal charges for allegedly dumping tens of thousands of gallons of fracking waste at a Marcellus Shale drilling site in 2010, according to a Pennsylvania judge’s ruling on Thursday. Following a preliminary hearing, Magisterial District Judge James G. Carn decided that all…
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Solar Beats Natural Gas in Game-Changing Court Ruling
Solar energy faced off against natural gas in a courtroom this week, and the greener of the two came out on top. Minnesota administrative law judge Eric Lipman recommended a solar project to help Xcel Energy, one of the state’s largest utility, provide 550 megawatts (MW) of new electricity generation by 2020. Lipman could have selected…
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One in Five New Parking Spaces in New York City Required to be EV-Compatible
Before his term ended, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill in December to help the nation’s largest city become one of the most progressive when it comes to electric vehicles (EV). The city passed a law to make one of every five parking spaces at newly constructed garages or parking lots compatible with…