ICC Launches Campaign to Urge Adoption of Updated Energy Codes
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International Code Council Launches Code on a Mission
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A Travesty in the World of Building Codes Could Erode Cities Ability to Fight Climate Change
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Biden Administration Wades Into Major Fight Over Green Building Codes
The Energy Department wants the nonprofit that sets model codes to justify its industry-backed bid to block cities from adopting more energy-efficient rules.
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The Biden administration has waded into a quiet but extremely consequential fight over building codes that are supposed to save energy, urging the nonprofit in charge of writing those guidelines to halt a policy change that would limit input from local governments and give the construction and gas industries more power.
In a letter sent last week to the International Code Council (ICC), the Department of Energy warned the private consortium, which oversees model building codes used in all 50 states and parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, that the policy change it’s considering could “be detrimental to an appropriate process with appropriate transparency” and stunt “important economic and environme