Groups Urge Biden, Congress To Create Low-Carbon Procurement Program

Major labor, environmental and other groups are urging the incoming Biden administration and Congress to quickly start creating a low-carbon procurement program for federal purchasing of construction and other materials, seeing it as a way to back lower-emitting domestic steel, cement and other energy-intensive industries and cut greenhouse gases. Mike Williams, deputy director of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), a coalition of labor and environmental groups, tells Climate Extra that groups like his have had “great conversations” with the incoming...