An interesting anti-LEED movement seems to be gaining momentum among states that are opposed to the USGBC LEED rating system and its discriminatory, monopolistic requirements for wood and other building materials. Along with Georgia, Alabama and Maine, the states of North Carolina, Florida and Ohio have recently introduced legislation that would effectively prohibit state-funded buildings from pursuing LEED certification. The Ohio legislature has taken the battle to ban LEED to another level by expressly prohibiting its use by Ohio’s state agencies and government entities. The resolution states:
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED v4 green building system fails to conform to recognized voluntary standard development procedures, including but not limited to American National Standards Institute procedures, and fails to base environmental and health criteria on risk assessment methodology; now therefore be it.