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The International Code Council released a draft of its 2024 International Energy Conservation Code for commercial buildings Sept. 6, with public comment through Oct. 31.

Suppliers are beginning to offer concrete and cement products with reduced carbon content, but roadblocks remain in the way of widespread market penetration.

A 471,000-sq-ft residential high-rise in Brooklyn’s Coney Island will get sustainable heating and cooling from underground wells when open in 2024.

John Podesta, a long time Democratic insider, will lead President Joe Biden’s climate team as it shifts to implementing the Inflation Reduction Act’s array of carbon-cutting provisions and incentives

Housing 90% of the world's population in timber buildings could cut additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by the equivalent of roughly 20 times U.S. annual emissions from energy use, researchers project.

Hornsea 2 includes 165 turbines and a 1.3-GW capacity. Largerr offshore wind energy projects are also in the works. 

The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains highway-related provisions that aim to give a boost to infrastructure projects in disadvantaged communities and for the use of low-carbon construction materials on federal highway projects.

Federal efforts to counter climate change have received a major boost through a just-enacted $700-billion measure whose centerpiece is a variety of tax incentives and federal funds aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.