Bill McKibben on a ruling by HUD that will require home builders to follow stricter energy codes for more cost-effective and energy-efficient homes.
The best examples of that latter category came on Thursday, first with a new rule on cleaning up power plants which could save more than a billion tons of carbon by mid-century, and then with a little-noticed ruling by the Department of Housing and Urban Development which will require builders putting up federally funded houses and apartments to comply with a set of more recent building and energy codes instead of earlier, laxer standards.
In a country where one in four households struggles to pay its energy bills—a number that rises to one in two low-income households—that’s money worth saving. So, as twenty-eight of the nation’s large housing and environmental groups said in a letter to HUD earlier this month, the increase in the sticker price is “a small price to pay for the more significant annual savings and enhanced long-term affordability and climate resiliency that energy-efficient homes offer.
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