After championing greener building codes, local governments lose right to vote | Grist
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 h...