Climate Change Policy
May 4, 2011
In an earlier blog post I noted that June was likely to be a critical month for possible federal energy legislation. It now looks like June will be consumed with work on the long-term federal budget and raising the federal debt ceiling, crowding...
March 24, 2011
It doesn’t take a Ouija board to know that activity on federal energy legislation has been less than dynamic recently. With Congress currently focused on funding the 2011 Fiscal Year (already now half over) and then increasing the federal...
January 6, 2011
2010 was a mixed year for energy efficiency with significant progress at the state level, but ultimately only modest success to show on the national level, particularly from Congress. As our 2010 ACEEE State Energy Policy Scorecard documented,...
August 18, 2010
Summer Study participants were treated to two insiders’ take on energy efficiency in China.
Mark Levine was recently the director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and is now...
June 17, 2010
On Tuesday June 15, 2010, three studies were released on the impacts of the American Power Act (APA) as developed by Senators Kerry and Lieberman. The three studies also integrated in all or many aspects of the American Clean Energy Leadership Act...
May 9, 2010
While Congress is now placing an emphasis on new energy resources, a closer examination of the evidence indicates the real push should be to dramatically improve the U.S. economy’s very low 13 percent energy efficiency. According to the...
May 9, 2010
On April 1st, USDOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the EPA issued harmonized fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks of model years 2012 through 2016. The joint...
April 16, 2010
A letter calling for strong measures to protect manufacturers as a condition for support of the Kerry, Graham, Lieberman climate bill came from ten industrial state senators:
Sherrod Brown
Debbie Stabenow
Carl Levin
Robert P....
April 7, 2010
Yesterday the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released its new report From Shop Floor to Top Floor: Best Business Practices in Energy Efficiency at its conference in Chicago. ACEEE's Neal Elliott was an advisory for the report, which was...
April 1, 2010
Northeast:
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approved the 2010–2012 electric and gas energy efficiency plans on January 28, 2010, which codify the goals set in the Green Communities Act of 2008. Annual electricity...