Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 19, 2023, at 2 p.m. EDT for the last of three public engagement webinars on new programs focused on lower carbon construction materials. This webinar will solicit feedback on how EPA could develop a carbon labeling program for these construction materials and products with substantially lower embodied greenhouse gas emissions. These programs were made possible by a $350 million investment from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
In January, EPA issued a request for information and announced the first opportunities for public input on establishing new grant and technical assistance programs, as well as a carbon labeling program for construction materials with substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA’s new programs will provide grants, technical assistance, and tools to help states and Tribal Nations, manufacturers, institutional buyers, real estate developers, builders, and others measure, report, and substantially lower the levels of embodied carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, use, and disposal of construction materials and products.
In addition to the public webinars, EPA is accepting public comments on the questions outlined in the request for information at docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2022-0924 on www.regulations.gov unitl May 1, 2023.
Recordings of the first two public webinars are available on our website for those that may have missed them.
- View a recording of the March 2, 2023, webinar: Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Construction Materials Prioritization and Environmental Data Improvement. This webinar provided an overview of EPA’s new programs with a focus on supply chain emission data standardization needs.
- View a recording of the March 22, 2023, webinar: Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Grants and Technical Assistance for Environmental Product Declarations. This webinar asked for feedback on new grant and technical assistance programs to help businesses calculate and report greenhouse gas emissions data for construction materials and products through Environmental Product Declarations.
Register for the April 19 webinar.
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