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Environmental

Jan. 13, 2010

State Adopts Green Standards

All new buildings in the state will soon have to be easy on the environment, thanks to passage of a major initiative of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.

By Jason W. Armstrong

Daily Journal Staff Writer

All new buildings in the state will soon have to be easy on the environment, thanks to passage of a major initiative of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration. The California Building Standards Commission Tuesday approved the state's mandatory Green Building Standards Code a first-in-the-nation set of requirements in which new construction must reduce water use by 20 percent, rec...

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