In response to recently proposed changes to the LEED Rating System, the GreenGuard Environmental Institute has launched a public campaign urging the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to strengthen its credit requirements for low-emitting interiors.

According to GreenGuard, “Despite the widely-publicized findings of the April 2010 report by Environment and Human Health, Inc.-which criticized the LEED rating system for ignoring the health impacts of product emissions-the proposed changes to IEQ Credit 4 (known as ‘EQ Credit: Low-Emitting Interiors’) fail to make product emissions requirements more stringent. In fact, as currently written, the credit allows for infinite emissions of hundreds of potentially harmful chemicals.”

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