Vermont’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would implement a clean heat standard, as recommended by the state's Climate Council.

The state Energy Commission adopted a key report and opened a proceeding aimed at decarbonizing the natural gas sector, including with heat pumps and hydrogen.

A task group of the Vermont Climate Council will take an extra six months to identify an alternative to TCI-P for reducing transportation emissions.

Many are disappointed that a proposed net-zero building code for Massachusetts does not allow municipalities to ban fossil-fuels in new construction.

New Jersey could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions from buildings – the state’s second largest source of emissions – by replacing fossil-fueled boilers with heat pumps and other electric appliances and beefing up incentives for the equipment, according to a recent report from the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. Heat pumps can replace furnaces or boilers, …

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A new Washington law will require all new "major" publicly owned or leased buildings to be designed with all-electric energy systems in mind.

The Massachusetts Commission on Clean Heat will spend the next month identifying policies and initiatives that can help achieve building sector emissions sublimits.

The California Energy Commission adopted a goal of installing six million electric heat-pump HVAC units and water heaters in homes by 2030.

Connecticut officials are accepting comments on the scope of the state’s Comprehensive Energy Strategy update through March 3.

Massachusetts legislators say that allowing fossil fuel heating in new buildings under a proposed net-zero building code does not make sense.