Appliance Standards: 40 Years of Success and Here’s to Many More!
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) federal appliance standards program has provided decades of improved energy, environmental, and consumer benefits; and we...
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DOE’s SunShot Successes Underscore the Bright Benefits of Federal Clean Energy Investments
What do GPS, the Internet and now solar, have in common? All are successful cutting-edge technologies that benefited from critical government support over the...
All Aboard: Clean Energy Deployment Shows No Signs of Slowing
Demand for renewable energy is accelerating. It's undeniable. Between significant recent policy revisions to renewable goals like those in Oregon, California,...
Extending Clean Energy Tax Incentives Fails to Take Flight in FAA Reauthorization
As the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2016 flies back to the House, it does so without important clean energy tax credits that were...
Energy Policy in Congress: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from 2015
Part of NRDC's Year-End Series Reviewing 2015 Energy Developments For the first time in eight years both the House and Senate energy committees sought this...
2015 Ends on a Cool Note for Walk-in Coolers and Freezers
This blog post was authored by Rachel Fakhry, MAP Fellow and participant in the DOE negotiated rulemaking. As they say, things don't always go as planned. But...