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Large NYC buildings will soon be sporting a conspicuous A to F letter grade at their public entrances. Modeled after the NYC’s restaurant grades and similar building rating programs in Europe, a new city law mandates building energy efficiency...
Salt Lake City took a significant step toward curbing building emissions on Tuesday when the Salt Lake City Council approved the Energy Benchmarking & Transparency Ordinance, an ordinance aimed at cutting energy costs, improving local air...
SEATTLE (April 18, 2017) –Today, Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) released 2015 building energy performance data for over 3,300 properties reporting data through Seattle's Energy Benchmarking program. Overall, the data is...
On Monday, January 30, St. Louis, MO became the fifth city in the Midwest to pass a mandatory energy benchmarking ordinance.
The “Building Energy Awareness” ordinance requires certain buildings to record annual whole-building...
The Denver City Council has unanimously approved new energy-efficiency regulations regarding the city's commercial buildings.
The new rules passed late Monday by a vote of 11-0, with council members Albus Brooks and Stacie Gilmore absent....
The City Council Tuesday took action to reduce energy use in large, older buildings, which studies have found are responsible for a great deal of the city’s energy consumption.
The Existing Building Energy and Water Efficiency ordinance...
Large buildings in Evanston, IL, will be required to benchmark energy performance, according to the Daily Northwestern.
The newspaper of Northwestern University, which is in Evanston, reported that aldermen voted 7-2 this week to...
On Monday, the Orlando City Council unanimously approved a Building Energy Sustainability Benchmarking program that aims to serve as an energy auditing ordinance to encourage reduced use of energy and water in buildings throughout Orlando.
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The Portland City Council voted 6-3 to become the first community in Maine to require large businesses and residential buildings to report their energy usage to the city.
The vote comes after South Portland rejected a similar measure,...