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The Builders' Association of the Twin Cities has sued the Minnesota GreenStar certification program over rights to green building guidelines the trade group helped develop.
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As almost anyone in the green community knows, last week LEED critic Henry Gifford sued the USGBC for, essentially, a few different flavors of fraud. I will address the various causes of action in different posts, starting this week with monopolization.
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A lawsuit against the U.S. Green Building Council and some of its key figures is drawing a lot of attention with allegations that include anti-trust, unfair competition, deceptive trade practices, false advertising and RICO violations. But does the complaint, filed as a class action suit in federal court in New York, have merit?<br />
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Last year, Baltimore passed an amendment to its building code requiring public and private structures larger than 10,000 gross square feet to "be equivalent to" a LEED-Silver level. Exactly what does that mean?
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Northland Pines High School in Wisconsin, the first public high school to receive a LEED-Gold rating, will go down in the annals of green building history as the target of the first third-party appeal of LEED certification. Are the parties disputing the certification needling naysayers or constructive critics?