Minnesota became the fifth state to enforce numeric carbon limits, rather than mere reporting requirements, on publicly procured construction materials when its first global warming potential…
California’s Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen), Title 24, Part 11, cut the commercial building threshold for mandatory embodied carbon compliance from 100,000 square feet to 50,000…
On January 1, California pulled a stack of mid-size commercial buildings under the same embodied-carbon rules that had applied to large commercial projects since mid-2024. CALGreen’s…