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Senators target energy-efficiency standards for new construction, citing cost

Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana., and a coalition of eight other Republican U.S. Senators are taking aim at energy-efficiency standards for new housing construction, citing the additional costs they would add to the purchase of new homes.

In April, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) settled on the new standards for the construction of new single-family and multifamily homes, aiming to fulfill a requirement laid out in a 2007 law that directs the departments to adopt details ⇒

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