Subcommittee on Investigations & Oversight Hearing

John Chyz

Commissioning Authority

The Cross Creek Initiative, Inc.

LEEDuser Basic Member

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June 13, 2012

For those that are interested, I believe that it would be worth viewing the Subcommittee on Investigations & Oversight Hearing-Green Building Rating Systems: http://science.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-investigations-and-oversight-hearing-green-building-rating-systems Interesting to observe that the USGBC decision to postpone release of the next rating system follows shortly after this investigations and oversight hearing.

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Eric Johnson

Sustainable Cost Solutions LLC

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Wed, 06/13/2012 - 17:31

John, Try reading this http://chej.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PVC/bad_news_comes_in_threes.pdf and then think about the following brilliant comment/excerpt and come back to me. The Honorable Paul Broun M.D. (R-GA), Chairman "Recent proposed changes to LEED for 2012 also appear to penalize some common building materials with little to no basis in science such as PVC piping. I’m not sure why PVC piping in a warehouse is such a concern. Shouldn’t we instead be focusing on saving taxpayer dollars rather than social engineering?"