White House Issues Plan to Cut Construction Carbon Emissions (1)

The Biden administration said Thursday it will tell agencies to buy low-carbon types of steel, concrete, asphalt, and flat glass.

Taken together, those four materials account for nearly half of all domestic carbon emissions from the manufacturing sector, and 98% of the government’s construction materials purchases, according to a White House fact sheet.

The plan also extends to federally-funded projects, the White House said. The federal Buy Clean Task Force—a group formed earlier this year by the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Domestic Climate Policy—will deliver instructions to agencies on how to execute ...