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Senator Ben Cardin of MD joins the list of growing HOME STAR sponsors

Wednesday, June 30 – Financing Resources for Home Performance Contractors: Getting Ready for the HOME STAR Gold Rush When: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 2 pm Eastern time / 11 am Pacific time Description: HOME STAR and other proposed government and utility sponsored rebates and tax credits can offer the potential to reimburse homeowners for substantial [...]

The United States Chamber of Commerce has added its influential voice to the growing call for swift passage of the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (S. 3434). In a letter to Senate leaders today, R. Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, said: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s [...]

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has joined on as a co-sponsor of HOME STAR

The National Association of Manufacturers today called on the United States Senate to pass the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, which would authorize a national incentive program for residential energy efficiency retrofits. In a letter addressed to members of the Senate, Dorothy Coleman, NAM’s Vice President for Tax, Technology and Domestic Economic Policy, [...]

Representatives of Efficiency First member Wattzy, Inc. – a social networking platform that helps consumers track and manage their household energy use online – were on hand at a press conference last week in which Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino announced a plan to conduct an infrared scan of the entire city of Boston. Merino’s announcement was [...]

As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster, the folks at EnergySavvy.com have come up with this thought-provoking graphic demonstration of what we could accomplish through large-scale efficiency retrofitting of American homes. “Did we even need to drill the Deepwater Horizon oil well to [...]

The proposed HOME STAR energy retrofit program is among several economic initiatives President Obama highlighted this week in an open message to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate. The June 12 letter  to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader [...]

Support continues to grow in the Senate for HOME STAR. We must continue to be heard. Please continue to let your Senator’s know you support HOME STAR. Send in another E-mail to your Senators: http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/home-star/ Sen Begich, Mark [AK-D] Sen Brown, Scott P. [MA-R] Sen Burris, Roland [IL-D] Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA-D] Sen Carper, Thomas [...]

Rosalind Jackson and Annie Carmichael of the nonprofit Vote Solar have written an insightful commentary for Greentech Media about the ongoing kerfuffle surrounding property assessed clean energy financing. The controversy surfaced last month after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sent cryptic letters to mortgage lenders around the country implying that the two government-backed mortgage companies [...]