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Lights Out
The Bush administration lets a profitable energy-efficiency program lapse |
Amanda Griscom |
02 Oct 2003 |
Muckraker |
| As of yesterday, Oct. 1, the most successful program in U.S. history for improving energy efficiency in federal buildings is toast. The demise of the Energy Savings Performance Contracting program is no insignificant matter, seeing as how the federal government is the single biggest energy-user in the nation. Taxpayers spend $4 billion per year to power 500,000 federal buildings nat ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, energy efficiency, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics) |
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