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EPA Stormwater Survey 86′d for Now

August 11, 2010 – 6:33 am

The NMHC and the NAA temporarily held the EPA back from implementing a mandatory owners’ survey, but a new stormwater runoff rule is brewing just the same. Stormwater control benefits everyone, but particularly the property owner.

By Elizabeth Madrigal | Posted in Business | Also tagged bioretention, catch basins, Clean Water Act, constructed wetlands, detention basins, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Stormwater Survey, Federal Register NMHC, G, green property management, green property manager, green renters, green roofs, ground water, NAA, permeable concrete, permeable modular block, point sources of pollution, porous asphalt, rain barrels, rain gardens, sand filters, Section 308 of the CWA, Stormwater control, swales, tree boxes, water percolation, wetland channels | Comments (4)

A Free 12-Step Program for Climate Abusers

February 9, 2010 – 7:29 am

Let’s face it. Until we admit we have a problem we won’t make any progress. Our feeble attempts to cut back or even our best-intentioned half-measures to compensate for energy mismanagement will merely serve to camouflage the real problem. Time is not on our side. We are hurting our families, our communities, our environment and ourselves, yet we seem powerless to stop. To me this [...]

By Elizabeth Madrigal | Posted in Energy | Also tagged Department of Ecology, Department of Energy, Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ, DOE, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, HVAC systems, May the Force Be With You, Star Wars, trees, U.S. Green Building Council, USGBC | Comments (0)