Efficiency First

List of H.R. 1778 cosponsors reaches 60 members of the House of Representatives
The office of Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, who sponsored the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) Program Act introduced last March, reports this week that the bill now has 60 cosponsors in the House of Representatives. The list now includes:
Keith Ellison [...]

Maggie L. Fox, president and CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, issued the following statement this week in support of President Obama’s call for home energy efficiency incentives:
As home heating bills rise, winter temperatures drop and job losses threaten, it’s clear that the time has come for a national energy efficiency upgrade. At [...]

Presidential address emphasizes the economic and ecological benefits of home energy retrofits
Speaking today at a Home Depot store in Alexandria, Va., President Barack Obama continued to promote federal energy retrofit incentives as a cost-effective way to create jobs and reduce energy bills for American consumers. In the course of his speech, the President even joked [...]

November figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show almost 20 percent unemployment among American construction workers
There is more bad news for the U.S. construction industry in the latest job figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to preliminary BLS data, construction sector unemployment for the month of November reached 19.4 percent – [...]

This is the last in a series of dispatches from the 2009 climate change summit sent to us by Amy L. Jarvis of Environmental Resources Management
I am back in the U.S. and will not be sending any additional updates from the ground in Copenhagen. Here are some final thoughts about the conference and its progress [...]

The latest in a series of dispatches from the 2009 climate change summit sent to us by Amy L. Jarvis of Environmental Resources Management
What an exciting morning … things are really heating up here (pardon the terrible pun) with various groups getting passionate about their requests for this group at the COP to address issues [...]

Residential efficiency program among top White House strategies for job creation
In a speech today at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama singled out residential energy retrofits as one of the keys to near-term job creation for American workers. “I’m calling on Congress to consider a new program to provide incentives for consumers who retrofit [...]

The second in a series of dispatches from the 2009 climate change summit sent to us by Amy L. Jarvis of Environmental Resources Management
After standing in line for over three hours yesterday in the bitter cold, I was able to register for the conference without a glitch. During which, I witnessed a couple of [...]

As the United Nations summit on climate change gets under way in Copenhagen this week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a formal declaration that emissions of greenhouse gases pose a serious threat to human health. The announcement, which culminates a lengthy scientific review ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007, sets the [...]

The first in a series of dispatches from the 2009 climate change summit sent to us by Amy L. Jarvis of Environmental Resources Management

Just wanted to give a quick note before I head off to get registered at the COP. Even though it is a cloudy day outside, I am positive that exciting [...]