Many States Lead on Energy Efficiency; More Needed
Clean energy, including energy efficiency, has struggled to maintain momentum in a year marked by a global pandemic, racial and social unrest, economic hardship...
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Top 5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Energy Efficiency
It’s no secret that energy efficiency offers substantial benefits and is the cheapest way to cut energy waste and stave off the climate crisis. It provides pe...
High-Quality Jobs Help Protect the Planet
The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the drastic inequities in our society, and it’s decimated the workforce across the board. More than 20 million people...
How to Plan for Equitable Energy Efficiency in a Pandemic
As the ongoing pandemic further exacerbates racial and economic disparities across America, it is important to examine whether programs aimed at helping utility...
Federal Energy Efficiency: Promoting Equity and the Planet
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disproportionately affect low-income communities of color and threatens to plunge our economy deeper into a recession at a ti...
Energy Efficiency Reform Is Needed to Reach All Communities
The past few weeks have illustrated once again how interwoven our society’s racial disparities are. We see higher levels of unemployment claims from people of...