Starting next year, jurisdictions in the state can choose to adopt an internationally accepted green building code for private and public construction. “This will make it easier and cheaper to build green,” said Stuart Kaplow, president of the U.S. Green Building Council of Maryland. The General Assembly passed House Bill 972 this spring, making Maryland the first state in the nation to authorize the voluntary use of the International Green Construction Code.
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those in the industry realize that this is just more government regulations that do nothing to save the environment, create more government intervention and inspection and save no one money
ANYTIME I hear a government official saying a new law will make things "cheaper and easier", I'm thinking --- lying piece of crap has a friend in some industry that is going to get rich off his newest scheme. WHEN has the government made something "easier and cheaper"? Answer? Never.
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