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New TOPA Law (Effective December 31, 2025) and Other Multifamily Legal Developments

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Happy New Year! As we noted in our last Alert (linked here), on September 17, 2025, the Rebalancing Expectations for Neighbors, Tenants, and Landlords (RENTAL) Act passed on its second reading by the DC Council. It was...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Quebec’s Bill 5: Fast-Tracking Priority National-Scale Projects

On December 9, 2025, Quebec’s Minister of Finance, Éric Girard, introduced Bill 5, An Act to accelerate the granting of the authorizations required to carry out priority national-scale projects (Bill 5), before the National...more

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Connecting data centres to the electricity networks

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The United Kingdom (UK) is one of the world's largest data centre markets, with facilities housing IT infrastructure needed to process, store and share data across various sectors, including Artificial Intelligence (AI),...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Federal Government Attacks State and Local Energy Regulations

In 2024, Washington citizens voted to prohibit the legislature from banning natural gas, by adopting Initiative 2066. The efficacy of that vote was immediately challenged on appeal by a variety of clean energy and...more

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Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: Restore the Mississippi River Delta's Comments on the U.S. EPA Proposed Rule

Restore the Mississippi River Delta coalition (“Delta Coalition”) submitted December 29, 2025 comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Untied States Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) on the...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update 1.8.26

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The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on January 13 will review proposed rules governing large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), which are expected to allow the controversial facilities to be built in...more

Ice Miller

FCC Move to Restrict Municipal Permitting Draws Sharp Divisions Between Cities, Utilities, and Broadband Industry Stakeholders

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering regulatory action to expedite the deployment of wireline and wireless broadband infrastructure by examining state and local permitting practices that it believes may...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Data Center Development at Brownfields Sites

Due to an unprecedented surge in data creation and consumption driven primarily by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services, demand for computing power is increasing and data center development has...more

Hogan Lovells

Construction and Engineering Global Review 2025

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Welcome to our Construction and Engineering Global Review 2025. We hope that you find time as the new year begins to review 2025's most important construction and engineering legal and industry highlights from key...more

Why Commercial Facility Services Are a Quiet Value Driver in the Data Center Boom

Explosive growth in cloud computing, AI workloads, edge deployments, and enterprise digitization continues to drive unprecedented demand for capacity, leading the data center sector to become one of the most closely watched...more

California Takes a ‘Study First’ Approach to Data Center Regulation

California lawmakers have recently focused renewed attention on the rapid growth of data centers, driven in large part by cloud computing and artificial intelligence capacity demands. ...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Zoning Appeals Get New Life When Posting Falls Short

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In a decision with immediate practical effects for real estate development in Philadelphia, the Commonwealth Court has revived a zoning appeal brought by neighbors after holding that permit recipients bear the burden to prove...more

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Key Takeaways from the Third Grenfell Progress Report

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On 17 December 2025, the government published the third Grenfell Tower Inquiry Government Progress Report (Progress Report) in addition to the Single Construction Regulator prospectus and consultation, the fire engineering...more

Williams Mullen

Environmental Notes - January 2026

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As the United States seeks to maintain primacy in data processing and artificial intelligence, the Trump Administration is taking steps to reduce the regulatory burdens for development of data centers necessary to sustain...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

MHH Condo/Co-op Digest, (January 2026)

This newsletter explores the emerging legal topics and issues affecting the condominium and cooperative services industry. Thought-leading attorneys from Moritt Hock & Hamroff’s Condominium and Cooperative Services Practice...more

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Congress Tosses a Wrench in the Gears of Public Land Management

Congress recently used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) of 1996 to prevent a number of federal land management plans from going into effect. Congressional application of this law to federal land management plans is...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

SPEED Act Passes House: Streamlining NEPA, Tightening Timelines, and Reframing Litigation

The House of Representatives has passed the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act (the “SPEED Act,” H.R. 4776), which now moves to the Senate. If enacted, the SPEED Act would consolidate front end...more

Williams Mullen

Beat the AI Clock: Federal Initiatives to Accelerate Data Center Environmental Permitting and Brownfield Opportunities

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As the United States seeks to maintain primacy in data processing and artificial intelligence, the Trump Administration is taking steps to reduce the regulatory burdens for development of data centers necessary to sustain...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

The Next Thing Knocking at Real Estate’s Door: Quantum Computing

The world has not yet fully explored the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), and yet another major technological wave is already forming on the horizon: quantum computing. ...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

2025 Year-End Review: Israeli Real Estate Taxation

In 2025, Israeli real estate taxation was characterized by strict adherence to statutory requirements: reliefs, exemptions, and lower tax brackets were granted only when the conditions prescribed by law were met, within the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

2026 Colorado Legislative Session Preview

The Colorado General Assembly convenes Jan. 14 against a backdrop of deep fiscal constraints in the state budget, affordability concerns and looming midterms in which the every member of the House, roughly half the Senate and...more

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USFWS December Review of Refuges, Monuments, and Hatcheries

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Director Brian Nesvik ordered a comprehensive, so-called top-to-bottom review on December 16, 2025, of the nation’s federal wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries....more

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Public Agency Cannot Sue for Inverse Condemnation for Its Own Improvements 

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This seems like common sense, but a public agency cannot pursue an inverse condemnation cause of action for damages suffered from its own public improvements. Yet that is exactly what the County of Santa Cruz recently...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Public-Private Partnerships in Real Estate: Building Strong Foundations, Navigating Risk and Embracing Emerging Trends

Since the White House released on July 23, 2025, “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”—issued under Executive Order 14179, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence”—there has been growing...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Pittsburgh’s Inclusionary Zoning Laws Survive Court Challenge

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A federal judge has rejected a bid to block Pittsburgh’s affordable‑housing set‑aside rules, leaving the city’s inclusionary zoning fully in effect and denying emergency relief. The court’s decision in Builders Association of...more

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