Behind The Push For FHFA To Adopt New Energy Codes
How PFAS Could Upend Brownfield Remediation
Hawaiian Investor Wants Liability Ruling In $200M Loan Row
Behind The Push For FHFA To Adopt New Energy Codes
A consortium of almost 80 housing, consumer, health and other advocacy groups is urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency to update to the latest energy codes, hoping the regulator will piggyback on other agencies' decisions to secure a climate win that would impact more than two-thirds of U.S. mortgages.
How PFAS Could Upend Brownfield Remediation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's pending designation of PFAS as a hazardous substance under environmental cleanup laws would be a historic move, but it has left brownfield developers and attorneys reeling with questions about how it affects their projects — both in the past and in the future.
Hawaiian Investor Wants Liability Ruling In $200M Loan Row
Jay H. Shidler, a Hawaiian real estate investor who guaranteed nearly $200 million in loans for the purchase of three multifamily properties in California and Washington state, asked a California federal judge to rule that a provision of the deal contracts was not breached and that he is not liable for the loans.
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