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Impervious Surfaces Lose Appeal, Depaving Movement Gains Momentum

May 8, 2024 admin asphalt, buildings, climate change, sustainable, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 13:16:37 +0000

Urban pavements, which help to maintain clean and secure streets, generate large amounts of runoff that aggravate flooding and degrade the quality of surface water. In the context of the ecological and climatic crisis, they also contribute to the creation of heat islands in cities, less water infiltration, less CO2 storage … [continued]

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Buy Clean Takes Center Stage at U.S. DOT & Other Agencies

September 17, 2022 admin asphalt, buy clean, clean power, clean transport, concrete, department of transportation (dot), inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, steel

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:17:55 +0000

Both the Biden administration and Congress recognize the importance of investing big in a clean and globally competitive industrial manufacturing base. A cornerstone of that effort is leveraging the federal government’s purchasing power to buy cleaner concrete, steel, and other industrial materials to catalyze market transformation. The Biden administration has already laid vital groundwork to do […]