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Air date:
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 5:00pm
The biggest energy users in America are not cars and trucks - they're buildings.
Buildings use about forty percent of the nation's energy.
In 2000, the US Green Building Council introduced a program to certify "green" buildings, called LEED.
That stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
A new version of the LEED standards was released yesrterday.
But as the environment report’s Samara Freemark found, some critics see serious flaws in the program.
- KBOO
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