Environment & Energy

But there is actually a lobby opposing any mandates or requirements for lighter/white more reflective roofing because money.

There is nothing - nothing - that money won't do to block anything at all that might hurt the chance of making more money more money more money RIGHT FUCKING NOW, even as the planet cooks. Even the simplest, most effective and cost-effective changes are to be blocked, opposed, strangled.

Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. In late March, Grills and his fellow lawmakers voted to eliminate the rule, scrapping a measure meant to save energy, lower temperatures and protect Tennesseans from extreme heat.

It was another win for a well-organized lobbying campaign led by manufacturers of dark roofing materials. Industry representatives called the rollback in Tennessee a needed correction as more of the state moved into a hotter climate zone, expanding the reach of the state’s cool-roof rule. Critics, including a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker and a Washington, D.C., pastor, called it dangerous and “deceptive.”

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https://floodlightnews.org/this-little-known-dark-roof-lobby-may-be-making-your-city-hotter/