The initiative is geared toward improving building energy performance and community resilience to extreme weather events and other effects of the climate crisis.

Renewables added 6.62GW of utility scale power to US grid, up 11.5% from one year ago. Nine states set offshore wind targets totaling nearly 45 GW, with New York breaking ground on the second utility scale project in the country.

After recently passing its first anniversary as a public company, the construction tech provider is stepping up efforts for its users to track greenhouse gas emissions in construction.

Funds are set to spur creation of four U.S. hubs to remove carbon dioxide directly from ambient air, but some advocates question their efficiency.

The team building Salesforce Tower Chicago reports it reduced the embodied carbon in the 1.2-million-sq-ft speculative office high-rise by 19%.

Advocates say the move will reduce carbon emissions from commercial buildings.

Facebook's parent company worked with researchers and concrete supplier Ozinga to develop a concrete mix with lower embodied carbon.

Federal 2022-23 budget, released last month includes first-time funding and incentives for projects to stem climate change impacts; Aecon, FCC Construccion head group awarded big Toronto rail electrification project