In the latest of a series of actions by the Biden-Harris administration aimed at reducing the federal government's carbon footprint, the US General Services Administration (GSA) .
The federal government is the largest energy consumer in the United States and has initiated a number of programs to improve its energy efficiency, decrease its energy costs and, lately, reduce its carbon footprint.
In recent months, the Biden Administration has taken noteworthy steps to use the federal government's vast purchasing power to shift markets away from products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
A potential amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) would require federal agencies to consider "the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions".