Efficiency First

Federal ‘Cash for Caulkers’ program would stimulate massive job creation in construction and related industries Recognizing the urgent need to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work, the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) today voted to support a federal program that would leverage government incentives and private investment to stimulate a massive increase [...]

California county sees 8.4 percent jump in construction employment since launch of PACE financing program A recent report from Sonoma County, California, shows a significant increase in construction jobs since the county introduced a popular Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program in March 2009. According to the report issued by the Sonoma County Energy [...]

A Nov. 23 editorial in the Barre Montpelier Times Argus names Rep. Peter Welch as one of 45 co-signers of a letter to President Obama that urges the White House to “fast-track a retrofit program that would make available stimulus money for energy efficiency work.” The newspaper quotes the letter as setting a target of [...]