April 30, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Hooper’s co-workers can be forgiven if they try to avoid him in the office. No one wants to be fingered as an energy hog. Hooper manages San Francisco’s five-year-old building-efficiency ordinance, created to measure wasted energy in the city’s largest structures, give them a score the public can see and prod owners to […]

Regulators say the state building code will be the key to achieving the goal, at least in the short term.

The efficiency mandate, intended to reduce the need for carbon-spewing power plants, is part of California’s mission to address climate change.