July 2008
July 9, 2008
In April, the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a rule to ramp up fuel economy (CAFE) standards over the years 2011-2015, reaching an average of 31.6 miles per gallon in 2015. The rule represents the first phase in implementing the...
July 8, 2008
In June, the U.S. Senate spent several days debating climate change legislation. The debate was nominally on the Lieberman-Warner bill that would establish a federal cap and trade program for greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012, with the...
July 8, 2008
A new ACEEE report released in May finds that investments in energy-efficient technologies reached $300 billion in 2004, or approximately three times the level of investment in new energy supply. In fact, energy efficiency may be the farthest-...
July 8, 2008
ACEEE's first-ever conference on water heating held in Sacramento, California on June 1-3 attracted 170 leading experts from manufacturing, distribution, electricity, gas and water utilities, government, and the research community. They came...