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Apartment Building Associations Seek Inefficient Buildings?

June 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Apartment Building Associations Seek Inefficient Buildings?

The National Multi Housing Council and National Apartment Association have put out an “appeal” calling for letters to Congress against instituting national building standards for energy efficiency that would move the nation on a path toward sensible building infrastructure.  This misleading, deceptive, and wrong-headed appeal seeks to add more voices toward those seeking to sabotage […]

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Tags: energy efficiency

ACEEE analysis of ACES EE or Energy Efficiency Makes CENTS (LOTS OF CENTS!!!!)

June 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

The energy efficiency sections of HR 2454, the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, are, almost certainly, its strongest elements. The United States, for a wide-ranging set of reasons, has evolved into a far more energy inefficient society than sensible (rather than stove-piped and distorted) economics would suggest should be the case. The […]

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Tags: cap and trade · Energy · energy efficiency

Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring

June 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring

Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) release their financial “scoring” of the draft Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act (note: pdf). CBO’s analysis projects, through its first decade, that the Federal Government will bring in $845.6 billion in revenue with $821.2 billion in additional expenditures, meaning that the US Treasury would see […]

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Tags: analysis · cap and trade · Congress · emissions · environmental · Global Warming

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