Bipartisan bill to boost green building materials glides through House

Published on April 3, 2025

Under the Biden administration, the federal government gave out billions of dollars to companies looking to slash the planet-heating emissions from concrete, cement , and asphalt . Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the future of that support for low-carbon materials has been thrown into question.…

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