The General Services Administration oversees $75 billion in annual contracts
The procurement arm of the federal government is imposing new limitations on high carbon-emitting building materials for all its major projects, a move that will affect billions of dollars of federal infrastructure investments.
“GSA is excited to deploy these groundbreaking standards as part of this administration’s all-hands-on-deck effort to catalyze clean energy innovation and strengthen American leadership on clean manufacturing,” GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan said in a statement. To address this climate pollution, GSA will require that all potential contractors delineate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their building materials, providing environmental product declarations. Carbon emitted from a product’s extraction, transportation and manufacturing will be considered.
The United States produces 420 million tons of asphalt each year, which is used to pave more than 90 percent of the country’s roads.
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