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https://grist.org/article/after-championing-greener-building-codes-local-governments-lose-right-to-vote/?MessageRunDetailID=4653001804&PostID=27137624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io After championing greener building codes, local governments lose right to vote The construction and gas industries now have more control over the nation's building codes. This  story  was originally published by  HuffPost  and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk  collaboration. The private consortium that oversees the model building codes for much of the United States and parts of the Caribbean and Latin America stripped local governments of their right to vote on future energy-efficiency codes earlier this month. The decision came more than a year after the construction and gas industry groups that wield heavy influence at the International Code Council, or ICC, objected to aggressive new energy codes for which government officials had voted. The change, tho

Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada, a non-profit organization, is pleased to announce we have continued  to establish scholarships in 2021 for undergraduate and graduate level architectural and engineering students who study concrete masonry as a subject, and will be continuing at their same university in fall 2021.  We have likewise established a scholarship for students  who have  already successfully completed a cooperative work experience with one of CMACN’s Producer Member companies (found on the CMACN website at  http://cmacn.org/producer-members.htm ) and who will be continuing at their same university in fall 2021 .  There are no predetermined number of scholarship awards; selections are determined by the responses to the application questions. To learn more, visit:  http://www.cmacn.org/annual-scholarships.htm