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This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [3]The Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2014 would amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the United States Secretary of Energy (), acting through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to act as the lead federal agency for ...
The Alliance to Save Energy is a bipartisan, nonprofit coalition of business, government, environmental, and consumer groups based in Washington, D.C. The Alliance states that it advocates for "energy-efficiency policies that minimize costs to society and individual consumers, and that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global climate."
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) is the first green building rating program designed for K-12 schools in the United States' [1] It provides information and resources to schools in order to facilitate the construction and operation of high performance institutions. A high performance school is energy and resource efficient ...
The Energy Efficient Schools Initiative (EESI) [7] / was approved by the Tennessee General Assembly in 2008 to provide funding to K-12 schools for energy efficiency projects. The initiative has $90 million available to fund energy efficiency in K-12 schools in Tennessee.
State and local energy policies typically relate to efficiency standards and/or transportation. [2] Federal energy policies since the 1973 oil crisis have been criticized for having an alleged crisis-mentality, promoting expensive quick fixes and single-shot solutions that ignore market and technology realities. [3] [4]
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. Founded in 1980, ACEEE's mission is to act as a catalyst to advance energy efficiency policies, programs, technologies, investments, and behaviors in order to help achieve greater economic prosperity, and environmental protection.
A volunteer, non-stakeholder board of directors oversees Energy Trust management, provides strategic and policy direction and approves the organization’s budget and major expenditures. The board carries out its oversight with guidance from three advisory councils: Conservation Advisory Council, Diversity Advisory Council and Renewable Energy ...
Energy policy sometimes dominates and sometimes is dominated by other government policies. For example energy policy may dominate, supplying free coal to poor families and schools thus supporting social policy, [6] but thus causing air pollution and so impeding heath policy and environmental policy.