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Recent reports + articles
- 5/19/26, UNEP, GlobalABC, Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction
- 5/18-24, NPR’s Climate Solutions Week: Local Lessons
- 5/13/26, USGBC, Why is the US walking away from energy efficiency?
- 5/8/26, NBI, The 2030 IECC: What’s Decided, What’s at Stake, and Where We Go From Here
- 5/7/26, JUST Solutions, Household Gas Prices Continue to Grow Faster than Electricity
- 4/30/26, ACEEE, Efficient New Homes Code Overlay to the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code
- 4/23/26, NBI (New Buildings Institute) The False Economy of Weaker Energy Codes
- 4/16/26, ACEEE, Strategies for Enhancing Resilience and Minimizing Vulnerabilities to Extreme Heat Events
- 4/7/26, BDC, Report Finds that Gas Utility Bills Rose 60% Faster than Electric Bills and Four Times Faster than Inflation in 2025
- 4/1/26, RMI, Lower Bills, Better Grids: Heat Pump Benefits for Electric Resistance-Heated Homes
- 4/1/26, Public Health Law Center; Hat Trick: Three New Opinions Uphold Local Authority to Decarbonize Buildings
- Apr ‘26, JUST Solutions, Accounting For Rural Energy Cost Burdens in Energy Affordability Policies
- 2/4/26, ACEEE; Faster and Cheaper: Demand-Side Solutions for Rapid Load Growth
EPA’s Rescinding of the 2009 Endangerment Finding
- Statement from AIA President Illya Azaroff, FAIA, on EPA’s Rescinding of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, 2/12/26
- EPA scraps the ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change harms human health, Scientific American, 2/12/26
- AIA opposes EPA’s new position on Greenhouse Gas Deregulation, 8/5/25

State Resources
- State Climate Policy Dashboard: a curated, interactive database with information on state-level climate policy progress in the U.S. Explore by state to learn about enacted policies and opportunities across all 50 states or by policy area for national landscape analyses and resources on 68 climate mitigation policies.
- The State of U.S. Energy: a current view of the benefits of energy investment in nine states, from job growth to rural land lease payments. Covering nine key states, these factsheets compile data from the 2026 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook, as well as the most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy, and more.

Running list of a Timeline of government climate moves, (Trellis)

Running list to Safeguard tools & data (COTE)
- Email cote@aia.org with any new additions

AIA + Climate Advocacy
- Hill day Actions Continue:
- Share your Advocacy Story! with the Gov't Affairs Forum
- Full List of Actions to take with AIA

- Link to AIA Government Affairs Forum (GAF)

Articles + Resources:
- Stronger Together: Collaborative Advocacy
- Value of an Architect
- Voices of Advocacy: a series of interviews with a leader from the COTE community who has successfully lobbied for important policy change. We celebrate this success so that we can learn from the ways these individuals, in concert with a larger collective, enacted change.
  - Embodied Carbon with Chris Hellstern, Washington
  - Energy Codes with Z Smith, Louisiana

Past Posts, Discussions, other links:

- Protect HOME Funding & Housing Jobs
  - Link to Act Now
- 179D under threat in the Senate
  - Direct link to ACT
  - Link to GAF Post
- USGBC’s Local Green Building Policy Accelerator (Jul + Aug)

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