The U.S. District Court in New York City has dismissed in its entirety the $100 million lawsuit brought against the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) by Henry Gifford and others.
A $100 million class action suit has been filed in U.S. District Court against the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED and its founders on charges that USGBC is “fraudulently misleading the consumer” and misrepresenting the energy performance of buildings certified under the LEED rating system.
The U.S. Green Building Council just finished accepting public comments on its third draft of new LEED rating system rules. How popular are the newly proposed rules?
ATLANTA — A new standard for the design of high-performance green buildings was recently announced, according to CSE Magazine. Published by ASHRAE, in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), and the U.S.
Online green building magazine Jetson Green recently published two lists containing the top ten green building trends for 2010, with both suggesting continued growth.
For two solid days, 250 of us drawn to Indianapolis Oct. 28-29 for the “Dollars & Sense of Going Green” conference immersed ourselves in all manner of public forum, small group and individual discussions, discourses and debates about the challenges and opportunities created by the burgeoning green movement