by John Nolon | Sep 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Building technology and energy codes matured greatly during the last two decades making it possible for buildings, which consume 40 percent of the nation’s energy, to be net zero energy users, calling on government to translate technological advances into codes and to...
by Karl Coplan | Sep 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Scientists Announce That Humanity Can Afford to Burn Twice as much Carbon as Previously Thought.” File that thought among headlines-you-never-saw-in-the-New-York-Times. But buried in Eduardo Porter’s Economics Scene column last month endorsing...
by John Nolon | Sep 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Over the past two decades, some coherence in the federal environmental legal system has been achieved, but climate change now demands a stronger legal framework ensuring that federal, state, and local agencies work together to leverage available resources. Despite...
by John Nolon | Aug 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
The last two decades witnessed a surge in adopting local and state open space protection laws and strategies. These techniques are now being examined as capable of protecting and enhancing the sequestering environment, which captures and stores from 15 to 20 percent...
by John Nolon | Aug 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Debates are raging in states underlain by shale gas formations, triggering arguments about the economic, health, and environmental impacts of a seemingly more climate-friendly source of energy. As we move from coal and oil to gas, countless decisions must be made...
by John Nolon | Aug 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
During the past twenty years, sustainable development law has come of age, with an increasing number of law firms, public officials, and scholars viewing environmental, land use, real estate, energy, and other related fields of law as an integrated area of policy,...
