There have been a couple of developments recently that suggest the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is becoming more user friendly.

This is the first NAS report to summarize and make recommendations on the use of "sustainable" remedy selection factors in the hazardous waste remedy selection process.

If you are an employer with New York-based workers or have employees that regularly work in New York, it is that time of year again!

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has recently adopted a revised version of the Local Rules of Bankruptcy Practice and Procedure of the Court.

On September 3, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed City Council Bill 130992, amending Philadelphia’s Fair Practices Ordinance.

The US Department of Energy has designated American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Standard 90.1 as the baseline energy efficiency standard for all new Federal commercial buildings.

On December 18 and 20, international trade authorities in the US and EU issued antidumping determinations on, respectively, wind tower and ethanol imports.

LEED for Homes is the U.S. Green Building Council green building rating system that is designed for evaluating single family, low-rise multi-family and mid-rise multi-family buildings.

On November 18, 2013, in a non-precedential decision, Linder v. SWEPI, LP, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 23196 (3d Cir. Nov. 18, 2013), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s decision that the lessee did not surrender non-unitized acreage and that the oil and gas lease did not terminate as a result of a brief delay of a rental payment.

An August 5, 2013 survey published by the Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change – a collaboration among four regional climate change investor groups – reported on trends among asset owners and managers.

The IRS released Notice 2013-29 on April 15th providing much anticipated guidance on methods for establishing "Beginning Construction" for purposes of qualifying renewable facilities for the renewable electricity production tax credit under Section 45 or the energy investment tax credit under Section 48.

The Department of Energy has recently announced a new database that includes the results of environmental monitoring and research efforts on wave, tidal, and current renewable energy.

The SEC's final Conflict Minerals rule has a number of undefined terms and ambiguous provisions that require difficult interpretations of the rule's applicability.

As Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council gear up to host Greenbuild 2013 in November, the Greenbuild 2013 Host Committee is seeking volunteers for several Greenbuild committees.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States released the unclassified version of its Annual Report to congress for CY 2011.

As we noted in a prior Estate Planning Update, 2013 brought with it a new 3.8-percent Medicare Contribution Tax on net investment income (interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, rents, capital gains, and passive activity income) for higher-income taxpayers.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted implementing regulations under the JOBS Act of 2012 and the implementation of various disqualification and so-called bad-actor provisions imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.

The U.S. Treasury has announced its award of $3.5 billion of New Markets Tax Credit allocations to 87 Community Development Entities across the country.

As previously reported in our September 10, 2012 Client Alert, "Pepper Victory: Sixth Circuit Holds that Supplemental Unemployment Compensation Benefits Are Not ‘Wages’ Subject to FICA Taxation," in an important recent decision, United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., et al., Case No. 01-1563, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 18820 (6th Cir. Sept. 7, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that supplemental unemployment compensation benefits (SUB payments) paid by a bankrupt company to it

Closely held corporations with religious objections cannot be required to provide health insurance coverage that includes certain types of contraception.