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National Partnership to Fund ENERGY STAR Homes The Home Depot Foundation and Habitat for Humanity join forces in $30 million green building initiative Partners in Sustainable Building, a pilot program launched last year by the The Home Depot Foundation and Habitat for Humanity International, is being expanded nationwide with the goal of building 5,000 new [...]

CLIMATE CHANGE & NATIONAL SECURITY The Waxman-Markey climate bill currently pending on Capitol Hill has a longer official title that’s often glossed over in news reports: It’s called the American Clean Energy & Security Act of 2009. The bill’s authors included the word “security” in the title to emphasize the fact that the legislation is [...]

According to the report, Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy, an initial investment of $520 billion in energy-saving measurers for non-transportation industries could reduce annual energy consumption by 23 percent by 2020. The energy savings would also prevent emissions of 1.1 gigatons of greenhouse gases, teh equivalent of taking the entire U.S. fleet of [...]

Legislative Update July 31, 2009 – During this week’s Efficiency First Webinar, David J. Leiter and Kevin M. Kappel of ML Strategies updated members on the status of climate and energy legislation pending on Capitol Hill. Lobbying on behalf of Efficiency First, one of ML Strategies’ top priorities at this time is to gain some [...]