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 ...

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’s not just adopting clean energy that’s essential to fight climate change – energy efficiency is also crucial. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm yesterday announced new building energy code ...

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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. This article was originally published by the Energy News Network. Minnesota would ...

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 ...

image: Applying new approaches in energy codes may support improved building efficiency and decarbonization in the Big Apple and beyond. view more Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The model energy codes, in their various forms, have been at the forefront of the discussion regarding building design in recent years. These codes include the International Energy Conservation Code ...

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 ...