[Comment: This website by Environment and Human Health, Inc. offers some information on the disconnect between "green" buildings which are LEED certified and human health. It is important to remember that green does not always equal healthy and what is good for the environment may not be good for human health. Both must be taken into consideration.]
LEED Certification Where Energy Efficiency Collides with Human Health, An EHHI Report
http://ehhi.org/reports/leed/
"Green Building Council standards are being incorporated into federal, state and local laws through legislation, executive orders, resolutions, policies, loan-granting criteria and tax credits. As demonstrated in this report, LEED standards are clearly insufficient to protect human health, yet they are being adopted by many levels of government as law. Thus the Green Building Council, a trade association for the building industry, is effectively structuring the regulations. The number of jurisdictions adopting these standards as law is growing, which will make them difficult if not impossible to change, unless federal law and regulation supersede the "green" standards with health-protective regulations."
http://ehhi.org/reports/leed/
"Green Building Council standards are being incorporated into federal, state and local laws through legislation, executive orders, resolutions, policies, loan-granting criteria and tax credits. As demonstrated in this report, LEED standards are clearly insufficient to protect human health, yet they are being adopted by many levels of government as law. Thus the Green Building Council, a trade association for the building industry, is effectively structuring the regulations. The number of jurisdictions adopting these standards as law is growing, which will make them difficult if not impossible to change, unless federal law and regulation supersede the "green" standards with health-protective regulations."
