Marathon hearing on reducing carbon emissions in buildings

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Reducing carbon emissions in buildings is a tough nut to crack. At a marathon hearing, Sen. Pacheco and I heard about topics ranging from embodied carbon — the carbon footprint of a material through its whole lifecycle — to networked geothermal — connected systems of ground-source heat pumps.

Senator Barrett listening to a panel of speakers testify at the Energy Committee hearing on decarbonization.