Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, on December 7, 2016, announced the Department of Financial Services has published a Consumer Bill of Rights for New Yorkers facing foreclosure. Additionally, DFS has also finalized a regulation protecting communities from the blight of “zombie properties” by requiring banks and mortgage servicers to report and maintain vacant and abandoned properties….
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) new streamlined, web-based registry is now live and ready for sUAS owners to use at www.faa.gov/uas/registration. A paper-based process is also available. The FAA’s full press release can be found here. Here is a brief summary of the key registration details: 1. Registration is mandatory in the…
Join us on March 31, along with Coldwell Banker Prime Properties, SEFCU Mortgage Services, and Spec-Pro Home Inspections, for a free seminar on home buying. Whether you are ready to buy now or thinking about buying in the future, we want to take the confusion and apprehension out of your home buying experience. To register,…
Whether you’re using a wood stove, pellet stove, or your fireplace, seeing smoke from your chimney means your fire isn’t burning efficiently or cleanly as it could. Wood smoke contains fine particles – also called fine particle pollution or PM2.5 — which can harm the lungs, blood vessels and heart. People with heart, vascular or…
Interesting article recently in the Huffington Post on new laws impacting real estate ownership, leases, insurance, and foreclosures in 2015 (the complete article can be found here). The changes include the following: 1. National Flood Insurance Program Reformed: Home purchasers can continue to be grandfathered under the prior owner’s policy premium amount and a degree…
Governor Andrew Cuomo will ban high volume hydraulic fracturing in the State of New York after a long-awaited report concluded that the oil and gas extraction method poses health risks. State government officials said the potential health and environmental impacts are too great to allow fracking to proceed in the state at this time, and…
Yesterday, the EPA proposed standards to reduce mercury discharges from dental offices. The proposal would require dental practices to comply with requirements for controlling the discharge of mercury and other metals in dental amalgam into publicly owned treatment works through the implementation and use of amalgam separators and best management practices. EPA is currently soliciting…
EPA announced on 9/22/2014 the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from marine and inland water ports located in areas of poor air quality. This is the second grant competition to focus on reducing emissions at ports under the Diesel Emission Reduction Act…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced proposed agreements with two subsidiaries of The Lightstone Group that are developing 700 units of residential housing adjacent to the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. The companies, LSG 363 Bond Street LLC and LSG 365 Bond Street LLC, have agreed to conduct sampling, cleanup work, and…
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