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A bill to amend the Energy Conservation and Production Act to improve Federal building energy efficiency standards, and for other purposes.

3/29/2007--Introduced.

Zero-Emissions Building Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to instruct the Secretary of Energy to establish revised federal building energy efficiency performance standards that require new federal buildings, if life-cycle cost-effective, be designed so that the greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, as compared to the fossil fuel-generated energy consumption by a similar federal building during FY2003, by specified increasing percentages between FY2007 and FY2030.

Prescribes alternative compliance guidelines.

Latest Actions
  • 03/29/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
S.1059 Introduced in Senate08/31/2007