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New Jersey Clean Energy Program

Zero Net Energy Buildings
State Public Utility Commissions
Program has three tiers: ENERGY STAR, DOE Zero Energy Ready, and Zero Energy Ready Plus Renewable Energy. Incentives for zero-energy ready are $1,500 per unit for multifamily, $2,500 for townhouses, and $4,000 for single-family detached.

Report, City Policy Framework for Dramatically Reducing Embodied Carbon

Low Carbon Concrete, Improving State and Local Building Energy Codes
Local Governments
Intended for cities and other government bodies to develop a strategy, action plan and policies to dramatically reduce embodied carbon, defined as carbon emissions from manufacture, transport, use and end of life of construction materials.

Portland’s Low Carbon Concrete Initiative

Low Carbon Concrete
Local Governments
Requiring product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and using those EPDs to select lower impact mixes for Portland Cement Concrete.

Marin County’s Low Carbon Concrete Code

Low Carbon Concrete, Sectoral Emissions Controls: Cement and Lime
Local Governments
Was the first in the nation to address the negative environmental externalities of concrete when it added a mandatory low carbon concrete specification to the Marin County Building Code.