Building electrification backers could get a powerful ally if Democratic candidate Joseph Biden prevails in the presidential election on Nov. 3 Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Biden’s $2 trillion climate-oriented infrastructure plan includes a goal of halving the US building sector’s carbon footprint by 2035. It also calls for establishing building performance standards throughout the country; reforming building energy codes; and financing state, city and tribal efforts to adopt stronger codes. California accelerated a national building electrification movement in 2019 when dozens of communities in the state began banning natural gas hookups in new buildings or requiring all-electric construction. But the strategy has run into legal hurdles, inertia and backlash beyond California, leaving some supporters to seek alternate, less politically charged pathways to building electrification. Additional coverage: 2020 […]