Inside the climate battle quietly raging about US homes | US news | The Guardian
"On one side are the city and state officials trying to go greener, and on the other are real estate developers and the natural gas industry. The International Code Council, which like the World Series largely concerns Americans, met this week on updating the baseline codes that most states and cities adopt for new buildings. The council is reviewing about two dozen proposals that would, for example, require builders to install electrical outlets near gas stoves that may one day be replaced with electric ones; and to wire enough power to garages where people may one day want to plug in electric cars...With the stakes high, climate advocates last year launched a campaign to make sure that more climate-minded officials – the ones that set energy and environment rules, in addition to those who enforce code – were involved in the normally obscure process."
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The real estate development industry is accustomed to having veto power over major building code changes, which is why they are so freaked out over having people with more of an environmental orientation involved in making the rules.
