The Gas Industry Gutted Green Building Codes. Now, Republicans Want To Go Further.

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Alexander Kaufman is a senior reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. He covers energy and climate change. A two-time winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, he has filed stories from the Arctic and the Amazon, Europe and East Asia.

in their fight to keep climate-friendly measures out of the next national homebuilding guidelines, successfully lobbying the private entity that writes the country’s model building codes to strip out rules that would make it cheaper for homeowners to go electric.

For example, Illinois adopts the new ICC codes when they’re released every three years — so builders in this blue state will always have to follow the greenest version of the code. In their letter, addressed to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, the GOP lawmakers accused the agency of failing to clearly define what any of those words meant.The four-page letter presses Granholm on seemingly unrelated points, like whether the administration would support codes that ban electricity derived from nuclear power plants.

But the whole point of raising the standards on new buildings in the first place is to help future homeowners avoid costly retrofits down the road.The building codes the ICC stripped from its latest codebook this month would have required developers to wire new homes and commercial buildings with the circuitry for electric appliances, heat pumps and car chargers. Federal research

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