Topic
Energy Efficiency
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Environmental Law Prof Blog
Energy Efficiency on the Rebound?
Energy efficiency policy is one of the few areas where we might still expect some progress at the federal level toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the next few years. …
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Energy Options
Similar to Professor McAllister's approach to nuclear energy in the classroom, I typically tell students in my energy and environmental law classes that there is no silver bullet in energy…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Learning from Another Worst-Case Scenario
In my climate change class, I have become accustomed to saying that “nuclear energy has to be on the table” as an alternative source of energy. It has been an…
Better Building: The Responsible Developer's Blog
Obama’s Better Building Initiative Aims to Improve Energy Efficiency and Reduce Costs
By Kelly Lennox
In the Better Building Initiative, President Obama proposes new measures to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings around the United States. The initiative aims to make commercial buildings 20 percent…
Land Use Prof Blog
Cox on the Case Against Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)
Prentiss Cox (Minnesota) has posted Keeping Pace?: The Case Against Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs. The abstract:Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) is a method of public financing for energy…
New Jersey Law Blog
Congress Extends New Energy Efficient Home Credit through December 31, 2011
On December 17, 2010, Congress enacted and the President signed into law a bill (H.R. 4853) known as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010.…
New Jersey Law Blog
NJ Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency Offers Loan Monies for Energy Efficient Upgrades
As a result of funding made available to New Jersey through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the NJ Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA) has introduced a…
New Jersey Law Blog
HUD Releases Details on Proposed PowerSaver Pilot Program
On November 9, 2010, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a press release unveiling its proposal to oversee a new loan insurance pilot program intended to…
Real Estate Legal Update
CRC is changing
By Catrin McHugh, Shelly Hayes
Much has been written about the UK Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (Energy Efficiency) Scheme (‘CRC’) over the last two years. Many in the property sector are aware of the complications…
Renewable + Law
New Defender of the PACE Program
By Janet Jacobs
There is new hope for the PACE financing program (the acronym stands for: “property-assessed clean energy”). The PACE program was started in Berkeley, CA in 2007 and made loans available…