The legislation, which is expected to be signed by Gov. Tim Walz in the coming days, would speed up the process for adopting new commercial building codes and put the state on a path to reducing energy use in new large buildings by 80% by 2036.
Author Archives: Frank Jossi
Frank is an independent journalist and consultant based in St. Paul and a longtime contributor to Midwest Energy News. His articles have appeared in more than 50 publications, including Minnesota Monthly, Wired, the Los Angeles Times, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Technology, Finance & Commerce and others. Frank has also been a Humphrey policy fellow at the University of Minnesota, a Fulbright journalism teacher in Pakistan and Albania, and a program director of the World Press Institute at Macalester College. Frank covers the state of Minnesota.
