Whether buildings of the future have massively scaled back carbon footprints may turn on developments with building energy codes, a locus of growing attention and debate. One, the International Energy ...

It can be easy to think of smoke-spewing factories as the energy hogs spinning our climate out of control, but when it comes to the sheer amount of electricity used in the U.S., the real problem is ...

The federal Inflation Reduction Act is law, and it includes $369 billion for climate mitigation and decarbonization in the U.S. economy. Now, cities and states are beginning to plan to put that money ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is offering funding to help state and local governments upgrade their building codes to boost energy efficiency. The department is making $1 billion available through the ...

November 2, 2010—Local and state building code officials last week approved a package of revisions to the commercial section of the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) that represent ...

The New Orleans skyline. An analysis by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy determined that the state of Louisiana has the most to gain from adopting the recent building energy codes.

DOE chief Jennifer Granholm warned the creators of the nation's most widely used model for building energy codes yesterday that their work could be sliding toward "irrelevance" in addressing climate ...

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) announced in a press release that it will lead a national effort to work with states and localities across the country to implement updated ...

CLIMATEWIRE | It seems almost too good to be true. But the Energy Department says one step by states would help the United States reduce future carbon emissions by nearly 2 billion metric tons and cut ...

Minnesota would accelerate its adoption of commercial building codes and put new large buildings on a path toward using 80% less energy by 2036 under legislation awaiting the governor’s signature. The ...

Breckenridge sustainability and building staff members have formally started stakeholder outreach as they embark on a monthslong process to nail down building codes before a mandated rollout set for ...

Boston would adopt a new, voluntary energy-efficient building code that would require new construction be wired for all-electric use under a plan pitched by Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday. If approved ...