Federal Buy Clean Initiative

partially implemented, funding rescinded

The Federal Buy Clean Initiative was launched as part of Executive Order 14057 to use the U.S. government's purchasing power to generate demand and establish a market for low-embodied carbon construction materials such as steel, concrete, glass, and asphalt. It involved procurement standards requiring disclosure of environmental product declarations (EPDs) and evaluation of embodied carbon, incentivizing bidders to use low-embodied carbon products in federal building projects. The initiative included collaboration with industry experts and other federal agencies to ensure effective market signals and was supported by funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to procure low-embodied carbon materials for federal construction and infrastructure projects.