Admin establishes the Environmental Standards Procurement Task Force
Saint Paul – The Department of Administration (Admin) announces the establishment of the Environmental Standards Procurement Task Force. Under Minnesota Laws 2023, Chapter 60 and 62, the legislature directed Admin and the Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to oversee the task force “to examine the implementation of a program requiring vendors of certain construction materials purchased by the state to:
- submit environmental product declarations that assess the material production life cycle environmental impacts of the materials to state officials as part of the procurement process; and
- meet standards established by the commissioner of Administration that limit greenhouse gas emissions impacts of the materials.”
Members of the task force include:
Minnesota Department of Administration
- Betsy Hayes, Chair, Assistant Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Curt Turgeon, Senior Administrative Engineer, Materials and Road Research
University of Minnesota, Center for Sustainable Building Research
- Richard Graves, Director, Center for Sustainable Building Research
Aggregate and Ready-Mix Association of Minnesota
- Josh Edwards, AVR Concrete
- Lars Anderson, Cemstone
Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota
- Matt Zeller, Executive Director, Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota
- Dan Labo, Director of Engineer Services, Concrete Paving Association of Minnesota
Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association
- Abbey Bryduck, Executive Director, Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association
- Kris Duininck, Duininck Companies
Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design
- Simona Fischer, MSR Design
- Laura Eder, ESG Architecture & Design
Minnesota Iron Mining Industry
- Sandy Karnowski, Cleveland Cliffs
Building Construction Firms
- Kevin Bright, Kraus Anderson
- Laura Ziegler, Association of General Contractors
Transportation Construction Firms
- Stephen Kaldenbach, Kraemer North America
- Tara Wetzel, Mathy Construction
Organized Labor in the Construction Trades
- Kevin Pranis, LIUNA
- John Thorson, LIUNA
Organized Labor in the Manufacturing or Industrial Sectors
- Bob Ryan, United Steel Workers
Environmental Advocacy Organizations
- Abby Hornberger, Blue Green Alliance
- Craig McDonnell, Fresh Energy
Environmental Justice Organizations
- Aurora Vautrin, 100% Campaign
- Sahsa Lewis-Norelle, Clean Water Action
Some members are still being determined and will be announce on a later date. The task force plans to convene its first meeting in November 2023.
For additional information, contact:
Communications Director Julie Nelsen at (651) 283-7644 or [email protected]
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