The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters.
Tag: EPA
2-Year Delay of WOTUS Rule a Much-Needed Step, NAHB Says
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) applauds today's announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency mandating a two-year delay of the Obama-era "waters of...
Energy update
Given the drag higher energy costs can have on net operating income, more multifamily owners and managers are zeroing in on reducing energy use...
Making sense of the new refrigerant and energy guidelines
In 1987, the Montreal Protocol was introduced after finding that man-made chemicals, specifically chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), were creating a hole in the ozone layer. This...
Getting inside multifamily’s utility management operation
“In many states we’re seeing an increase in the trend to mandate submetering for any residential and commercial new building construction. Around eight states...
The laws of human nature
Andy, a ‘Bama boy, lost his mother to cancer and his father in a car wreck shortly thereafter at the age of 19. He...
The camel that had no hump
This especially irritates Rob Pressman, the principal of Burbank, Calif.-based TGP, Inc. Landscape Architecture, who believes that aesthetics do not have to be discarded...
Not your father’s utility management program
Each grew up with, and eventually stepped in to run their family’s apartment business. Each took the baton and carried their multifamily enterprise into...
Haystack or a needle?
The event was opened by Reed, who also announced that his company and host of the event, NWP, had been acquired by Dallas, Texas-based,...
Multifamily energy summit report 2014
A number of the nation’s larger owners and operators also led discussions and attended the two-day event. The gathering focused on those greatest challenges...
Obama: Energy efficiency for millions of apartments
And they plan on doing it through pressures in lending requirements. What comes of this partnership remains to be seen, but the goal is...
Banning demon coal
One mystery of U.S. politics is why Al Gore, California billionaire Tom Steyer and the green lobby view President Obama as a disaster for...
Natural gas. Natural choice?
Increasing use of this cheap, clean gas means power stations across the country have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions to levels not seen since...
EPA’s back-room “Sue and Settle” deals require reform
Imagine, also, that the EPA and the Kochs then got a federal court to issue a decree ratifying the deal and giving it the...
Mandating energy benchmarks for multifamily housing
Coming down the pike, on the federal, state and local levels in cities around the country, is legislation that will require multifamily owners to...