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LEED encourages market transformation through transparent, third-party verified data. Product-specific Type III Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) disclose standardized life-cycle impacts (e.g., global warming potential), enabling apples-to-apples comparison. Health Product Declarations (HPDs) and equivalent ingredient programs inventory chemicals to a set threshold and screen hazards, guiding safer selections. SDSs are necessary for safety but do not provide life-cycle or hazard screening in a way that meets MR credit requirements. Marketing claims and labels without verification risk greenwashing and reviewer pushback. By requiring EPDs and HPDs in specifications, tracking them in a submittal matrix, and coordinating with vendors early, teams build a defensible documentation set, prefer lower-impact/safer chemistries, and simplify LEED reviews—while signaling demand that improves supply chains over time.