More Green Building Requirements Coming to Boston in 2024
The next hurdle for developers that want to build in the city will challenge them to include decarbonized materials and green building designs to reduce their fossil fuel footprints.
How to Prepare Buildings for a Carbon Neutral Future
Commercial building owners in Greater Boston face immediate decisions on strategies to comply with new regulations on emissions, decarbonization and energy efficiency.
Decarbonization Lobby Wants Healey Moving ‘Full Speed Ahead’
Climate and environmental activists made clear Wednesday that they feel they have a real ally in Gov. Maura Healey and sent a direct message to the new administration’s climate chief: it’s time to get to work.
CRE Takes Center Stage as Climate Activists Push for More Mass. Restrictions
When it comes to climate change policy, there are two parallel tracks at play on Beacon Hill: one focused on implementing the climate law that Gov. Charlie Baker signed in March, and another focused on passing legislation to set even more ambitious goals than the ones that just became law.
New Thinking Can Address Boston’s Four Housing Crises
The greatest innovation in housing is not any specific material, system or assembly. It’s the rapidly growing movement to continually define and consistently deliver future housing.
Baker to Sign Sweeping Climate Change Bill
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday that he plans to sign a sweeping climate change bill, ending months of shuttling the legislation back and forth between the Democratic-controlled legislature and the Republican governor.
Big Biz Groups Shift Tone on Climate Bill
Two business groups that expressed reservations with details of the sweeping climate policy and emissions bill on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk have shifted their tone
Baker ‘Pleased’ With Revised Climate Bill Despite CRE Industry Fears
Gov. Charlie Baker and his administration are happy with the changes the legislature made to the climate policy bill that’s been the subject of negotiations and debate – both public and private – for months, but his top environmental official stopped short of saying Baker will sign the bill into law.
The Market Can’t Solve Climate Change – Yet
The hard steps – adapting how we do business to a low-carbon world – aren’t really happening yet, and for good reason. The money isn’t there. Beacon Hill has a chance to change that.
Senate OKs ‘Net Zero’ Building Code With Climate Change Bill
A provision in the bills allows cities and towns to adopt a “stretch” net-zero building code, which real estate industry groups said would be technically difficult to implement given the cost of energy efficiency and HVAC technology.
More Aggressive State Carbon Goals Could Include Real Estate Sector
Energy Secretary Kathleen Theoharides said Tuesday that the Baker administration is exploring more aggressive carbon reduction targets for Massachusetts, including what it would take to go net-zero by 2050, but would not commit to lawmakers to speeding up the state’s emission reduction goals.
