RESOURCES
(Proposed) The Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act (LECCLA)
LECCLA will incentivize New York’s and New Jersey’s concrete and concrete component producers to use low carbon ingredients and processes to increase the competitiveness of their bids for state and state-funded construction projects through the use of a discount rate for producers that use low carbon ingredients and processes.
LECCLAs discount rate incentive controls price escalation and empowers local concrete manufacturers to adopt and prioritize low carbon alternatives that are cost effective and locally available.
Enacting LECCLA would help establish New York State and the State of New Jersey as national leaders for low carbon concrete production, as well as leaders in the emerging market for low-emission carbon breakthrough products and services.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Market-based policy pathway to reduce emissions from cement and concrete production
- Provides a discount rate for producers that use low carbon ingredients and processes in the bidding process for state and state-funded construction projects.