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Healthy, High Performance School Facilities:
Developments in State Policy

District of Columbia

 

Citation: D.C. Statutes 6-1451.02
Effective: 2008
Available: HERE

This law establishes green building requirements for public and private buildings in the District of Columbia. The law directs the Mayor to promulgate rules to require public school new construction and substantial improvement to be verified as having achieved the LEED-Schools standard or a “substantially equivalent rating system that requires full-building commissioning.” The law also requires public buildings to meet certain EPA Energy Star criteria.
 

The Innovation in Governance Programs work to develop inventive approaches to new or entrenched environmental problems and changing technologies and economies. The programs focus on four objectives:

  • Investigate and promote innovative approaches to managing government agencies and private businesses that will achieve greater environmental protection.
  • Safeguard and strengthen the safety net of federal environmental law, its enforcement in the courts, and its state implementation through strategic research, education, and outreach.
  • Improve understanding of environmental governance tools by hosting visiting scholars and international delegations.
  • Through ELI’s Center for Business Environmental Strategy, provide information, ideas and tools for corporate environmental lawyers and executives to improve environmental management.
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