• The U.S. Green Building Council is working with the National Coalition of Environmental Legislators to focus attention on ways states can encourage green residential building.
• At a national legislators' meeting in Chicago, USGBC released a policy brief on the strategy.
• Much of the effort in state legislators has been aimed at encouraging green school buildings and other large structures.

From the article:

By Jeremy Sigmon, LEED® AP BD+C Director, Technical Policy, U.S. Green Building Council

Even in a still struggling economy, green building policymaking continues. To celebrate some of the impressive progress this year, USGBC partnered with the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL) to convene key state lawmakers in Chicago this past Tuesday during the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). ...