Efficiency First

This week in Washington, DC over 100 contractors will join Efficiency First to advocate for the swift passage of the HOME STAR jobs legislation. The message to the U.S. Senate act now, put construction workers to work and help main street save money.

Here’s a video recording of Green Jobs in the Residential Energy Efficiency Industry, a Webinar presented last Friday by Efficiency First and its research arm, the Home Performance Resource Center:

In an opinion piece published yesterday by Earth2Tech, Efficiency First policy chair Matt Golden lays out the logic behind the HOME STAR energy retrofit program, and calls for the Senate to move forward with the legislation that the House of Representatives passed earlier this month. “For the legions of unemployed Americans who have lost jobs [...]

HOME STAR was the subject of an in-depth interview and call-in show aired today on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. The program featured Bracken Hendricks, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, speaking on behalf of the HOME STAR Coalition. Watch the full 40-minute broadcast online at www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293409-5. Bracken Hendricks is the co-author, with Efficiency First [...]

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2010 Statement by the President on House Passage of Home Star Legislation “The Home Star Energy Retrofit Act is a common sense bill that will create jobs, save consumers money, and strengthen our economy.  I commend the House on passing this bill, [...]

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the House passed the HomeStar Energy Retrofit Act: “After losing three-quarters of a million jobs per month, on average, during the last three months of the last administration, our economy is creating jobs again. Since President Obama took office, monthly job losses [...]

The following press release was issued today by the office of Rep. Peter Welch, author of the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (H.R. 5019) passed today by the U.S. House of Representatives: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House on Thursday passed bipartisan, job-creating legislation that will help three million families refit, renovate and [...]

By a vote of 246 to 161, the House of Representatives today voted to approve the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (H.R. 5019), which authorizes creation of a national energy retrofit program for American homeowners. The vote marks a significant milestone in the progress of the bipartisan HOME STAR legislation, although it’s important to [...]

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