Investing in energy-efficiency upgrades in multifamily affordable housing nationwide has the potential to deliver substantial financial, environmental, and health benefits to building owners and residents—and to have the positive cumulative effect of improving communities and regions on a larger scale. Unfortunately, the insulation and air-sealing materials most often used are not always the healthiest available—and at worst, can even cause harm.
To help change that, NRDC has launched this Guidance for Specifying Healthier Insulation and Air-Sealing Materials, a tool that can be used by building contractors and implementers along the supply chain to make it as easy as possible to get the safest building materials into multifamily affordable housing.
To learn more, see this blog just posted by Michele Knabb Hasson, California Policy Manager, Energy Efficiency for All coalition that includes NRDC: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/michele-knab-hasson/making-it-easy-create-healthy-energy-efficiency