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Climate Advocates, Architect Back 'Buy Clean' Bill to Cut Embodied Carbon in Public Projects
Summary
Representatives of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network and practicing architects urged the committee to report H.3325, creating a Buy Clean program to reduce embodied carbon in state procurement, and to accelerate the timetable for targets now set as January 2030 for large projects.
Jack Lundgren, director of Embodied Carbon Initiatives at the Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN), and Brian Sanford, a registered architect, testified Oct. 8 in support of House Bill 3,325 to establish a Buy Clean Massachusetts program.
Lundgren told the committee embodied carbon—greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, transporting and disposing of…
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