Global Climate Change & Greenhouse Gases

There are several ways in which the home building industry may be impacted by global climate change. In particular, global climate change has the potential to exacerbate issues that home builders currently face resulting in new regulations, laws, policies, such as the demand for more energy efficient housing. The lack of federal action for climate change legislature has encouraged local and regional action to reduce greenhouse gasses. To learn more about the climate change, impacts on the housing industry, and NAHB’s efforts to address this issue, explore the topics provided below.

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Draft Guidance Clarifying Appropriateness of “Findings of No Significant Impact” and Specifying When There is a Need to Monitor Environmental Mitigation Commitments On February 18, 2010 the Center for Environmental Quality (CEQ) launched its celebration honoring the 40th anniversary of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The third and final draft guidance addresses mitigation and monitoring requirements under NEPA. NAHB commented on this draft guidance … 5/25/2010	PDF
Draft NEPA Guidance on Consideration of the Effects of Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions On February 18, 2010 the Center for Environmental Quality (CEQ) launched its celebration honoring the 40th anniversary of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). To honor its anniversary, CEQ released 3 major proposed updates to the NEPA program. The second one addresses NEPA and minimizing the … 5/25/2010	PDF
Establishing and Applying Categorical Exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act On February 18, 2010 the Center for Environmental Quality (CEQ) launched its celebration honoring the 40th anniversary of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). To honor its anniversary, CEQ released 3 major proposed updates to the NEPA program. The first one addresses categorical exclusions. … 5/25/2010	PDF
Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaption Task Force On March 16, 2010 the Center for Environmental Quality (CEQ) released its progress report by the interagency climate change tast force. The progress report outlined the possible direction for National climate change mitigation policy. 5/24/2010	PDF
The Green Report Building green does not just mean building eco-friendly, it also means building smart. The Green Report educates the smart builder and interested consumer by detailing the basic principles of green building, numerous strategies designed to lower on-site costs and how to gain credibility … 3/6/2009	Web page