Efficiency First

What’s Being Said About Home Star “Adapting houses to use less energy may be the best hope for the 3.3 million small businesses and solo contractors who dominate America’s construction industry, a sector that has lost 2.1 million jobs since the peak of the housing bubble. The unemployment rate in the construction industry was 24.9% [...]

Efficiency First and the HOME STAR Coalition placed advertisements today in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call ahead of Thursday’s scheduled House vote on the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010. Both ads focus on the potential to create good jobs for American workers in construction and related manufacturing and retail sectors. Scroll down to [...]

RILA Encourages Passage of Home Star Legislation to Boost Energy Efficiency, Job Growth Arlington, VA – Retail Industry Leaders Association Senior Vice President for Government Affairs John Emling issued the following statement encouraging passage of the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act. HOME STAR will provide strong short-term incentives for energy efficiency, establishing $6 billion rebate [...]

FAITH COMMUNITY URGES SUPPORT FOR HOME STAR ENERGY RETROFIT ACT May 5th, 2010 Dear Members of Congress, We write to you as people of faith, on behalf of the communities, members, and volunteers we represent. Our traditions teach us that we each have a responsibility to the well-being of our society and to every person [...]

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 May 5, 2010 (House Rules) STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY H.R. 5019 – Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (Rep. Welch, D-Vermont, and 44 cosponsors) The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 5019, the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010.  [...]

May 5, 2010 Dear Representatives: The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the nation’s largest industrial trade association representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states, urges you to support H.R. 5019, the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act. U.S. manufacturing employment has fallen by nearly 2.2 million since December 2007 to [...]

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than three million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region, supports H.R. 5019, the “Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010,” which would provide a solid framework for a [...]

On the eve of Thursday’s scheduled House of Representatives vote on the HOME STAR Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, USA Today has published a brief overview of the legislation and its potential to create new jobs for American workers in construction and related manufacturing. The article cites Steve Cowell, chairman of Conservation Services Group, explaining [...]

From our friends at the ECO-BROKERS: A collaborative effort of volunteers (including EF members) from a wide variety of stakeholders has now resulted in the initial version of The Green MLS Toolkit. Participants ranged from the primary organizer Tom Deyo at NeighborWorks, the National Association of Homebuilders, local REALTOR® association professionals, appraisers, lenders and lender [...]

A vote on the HOME STAR Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 has been scheduled for this Thursday, May 6, in the House of Representatives. If you haven’t already contacted Congress to express support for this important bipartisan legislation, now is the time to drive the message home that HOME STAR is good for American workers [...]