Trump Cancels Biden-Era Support for Zero-Emissions Buildings

The Energy Department will unwind a Biden-era program that promoted zero-emissions buildings, according to a Tuesday Federal Register notice.

The decision undermines a longstanding priority by environmentalists to decarbonize the building sector, which accounts for more than a third of US greenhouse gases.

But the DOE under the Trump administration broadly doesn’t support net-zero policies because it believes they raise energy costs for American consumers, threaten the reliability of the grid, and undermine national security.

The DOE published a definition of a zero-emissions building in June 2024, requiring such buildings to be energy-efficient, emit ...