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Recent reports + articles
- 4/7/26, BDC (Building Decarbonization Coalition): 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
- 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
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

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

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