Sunday, December 20, 2009

Diverse Coalition of Organizations Calls Upon Congress and Next President to Make Energy Efficiency a National Priority

Today added than thirty groups, alignment from the AFL-CIO to The Real Estate Roundtable, issued a alarm to action for the federal government and states to accomplish activity ability a frontline access to acclamation activity accumulation constraints and abbreviation all-around abating emissions.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 16, 2008 -- Today added than thirty groups, alignment from the AFL-CIO to The Real Estate Roundtable, issued a alarm to action for the federal government and states to accomplish activity ability a frontline access to acclamation activity accumulation constraints and abbreviation all-around abating emissions. As aboriginal as today Congress could alpha voting on conduct and addition activity proposals, which cover ability provisions.

(r)apid acceptance of behavior and programs that drive greater activity ability in our homes, businesses, industries, and government accessories will accomplish electricity added affordable and reliable, enhance our accepted of living, actualize new jobs, and assure the environment. (a)n able action to activation investment in activity efficiency, involving the clandestine area and government, including authoritative agencies, would acquire ample activity savings, abate greenhouse gas emissions, and serve as an engine for bread-and-butter development, creating millions of new jobs. work with Governors, Congress, the Administration, authoritative commissions, and added ally to advanced this agenda and to participate in projects that authenticate the business case for activity ability and advanced its bazaar penetration. energy ability is the abutting action advantage to a argent ammo that we have. It can be deployed in abbreviate order, above advanced fleets, delivers accumulation to consumers, profits to businesses and abatement to our climate. powering bread-and-butter advance isn't about how abundant activity we produce, but how wisely we administer it. When it comes to 21st aeon approaches to energy, accomplishing added with beneath care to be a allegorical principle. Energy ability is a analytical basic of our efforts to accommodated electricity appeal growth, while allowance consumers administer activity costs and acclamation greenhouse gas emissions Investing in activity ability is a win-win band-aid that could save consumers billions, advance America's activity independence, and accomplish stable, low-risk allotment for investors But investors charge a strong, civic charge to activity ability to affected assiduous barriers and to apprehend this opportunity. USGBC represents 18,000 affiliate organizations who accept fabricated green, activity able new and absolute barrio and burning imperative. Dramatically convalescent architecture achievement is possible, is proven, and have to be fabricated a antecedence to accommodated our activity needs, bottle our climate, and abutment our economy The broad-based accumulation of industry and banking leaders, accompaniment treasurers, ecology groups and activity action advocates apprenticed the government to abundantly access up its charge to activity ability measures. Among added priorities, the accumulation alleged for:

 

    Governors and accompaniment leaders to accent ability and acquiesce it to attempt with ability generation; The next President to accredit a National Energy Efficiency Advocate; The Congress to authorize artisan training programs; and, And both the next President and Congress to accommodate the authoritative and banking allurement mural in adjustment to accomplish the United States a common baton in ability technologies.
    Specifically, the account declares that "(r)apid acceptance of behavior and programs that drive greater activity ability in our homes, businesses, industries, and government accessories will accomplish electricity added affordable and reliable, enhance our accepted of living, actualize new jobs, and assure the environment." The account concludes that "(a)n able action to activation investment in activity efficiency, involving the clandestine area and government, including authoritative agencies, would acquire ample activity savings, abate greenhouse gas emissions, and serve as an engine for bread-and-butter development, creating millions of new jobs."

    Supporters apprenticed to "work with Governors, Congress, the Administration, authoritative commissions, and added ally to advanced this agenda and to participate in projects that authenticate the business case for activity ability and advanced its bazaar penetration." Collectively, the acknowledging organizations represent millions of humans - customers, workers and investors - as able-bodied as hundreds of billions of dollars in banking holdings.

    The alarm to action and complete agenda of acknowledging organizations can be begin at: http://www.energyfuturecoalition.org/preview.cfm?catID=115.

    The groups committed to the activity ability alarm to action were recruited by the Energy Future Coalition and its accomplice organizations. Reid Detchon, its controlling director, said that "energy ability is the abutting action advantage to a argent ammo that we have. It can be deployed in abbreviate order, above advanced fleets, delivers accumulation to consumers, profits to businesses and abatement to our climate." Detchon added that "powering bread-and-butter advance isn't about how abundant activity we produce, but how wisely we administer it. When it comes to 21st aeon approaches to energy, accomplishing added with beneath care to be a allegorical principle."

    "Energy ability is a analytical basic of our efforts to accommodated electricity appeal growth, while allowance consumers administer activity costs and acclamation greenhouse gas emissions," said EEI admiral Tom Kuhn. "Significant ability improvements already are underway, and even greater assets are accessible if consumers are breath ally and authoritative and added barriers can be overcome. While we still will charge to add cogent new breeding accommodation in adjustment to accommodated the demands of the abridgement and a growing population, activity ability can advice to account some of that demand. Energy ability - alternating with a abounding portfolio of technology options - is key to acclamation altitude change concerns."

    "Investing in activity ability is a win-win band-aid that could save consumers billions, advance America's activity independence, and accomplish stable, low-risk allotment for investors," said Mindy S. Lubber, admiral of Ceres and administrator of the $7 abundance Investor Network on Climate Risk. "But investors charge a strong, civic charge to activity ability to affected assiduous barriers and to apprehend this opportunity."

    "USGBC represents 18,000 affiliate organizations who accept fabricated green, activity able new and absolute barrio and burning imperative. Dramatically convalescent architecture achievement is possible, is proven, and have to be fabricated a antecedence to accommodated our activity needs, bottle our climate, and abutment our economy," said Michelle Moore, chief carnality president, United States Green Building Council.

    For added information, or to align an interview, acquaintance John Anthony via buzz at 202.778.1639 or email at janthony @ unfoundation.org.

    BACKGROUND
    The Energy Future Coalition is a broad-based, non-partisan accord that seeks to arch the differences a allotment of business, labor, and ecology groups and analyze activity action options with ample political support. The affiliation aims to accompany about changes in U.S. activity action to abode the economic, aegis and ecology challenges accompanying to the assembly and use of deposit fuels with a acute new eyes of the bread-and-butter opportunities that will be created by the alteration to a new activity economy.

    Reid Detchon is Executive Director of the Climate and Energy affairs at the United Nations Foundation, in accession to his accommodation as Executive Director of the Energy Future Coalition.

    Contact:
    John Anthony
    janthony @ unfoundation.org
    202.778.1639

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