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  • Sanders Introduces "Stand-Alone" LIHEAP Bill; Reid Agrees to "Fast Track"

    On June 25, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced S.3186, The Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act.   This legislation would provide $2.53 billion in fiscal year 2008 emergency funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) Program.  Fifty percent of the funding would be allocated to states under the existing statutory ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on July 1, 2008
  • Inslee Introduces Bill to Guarantee Purchases/Grid Access for Renewables; Delahunt Cosponsors

    On June 26, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), along with Reps. Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), and Mike Honda (D-CA), introduced the Renewable Energy Jobs and Security Act.  The bill would provide guaranteed renewable-energy payments (also known as "feed-in tariffs" in Europe and elsewhere) to small- and mid-sized clean energy ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on July 1, 2008
  • Sens. Reed and Collins Request Emergency LIHEAP Funds

    On June 27, Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), along with forty-three Senate colleagues, sent a letter to the White House requesting the immediate release of $120 million in emergency contingency funds for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) Program.  The letter asks that the funds be released no less than two weeks ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on July 1, 2008
  • House Committee Holds Oversight Hearing on Rural Electric Coops

    On Thursday, June 26, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a lengthy oversight hearing on "Government and Financial Accountability of Rural Electric Cooperatives: The Pedernales Experience."  Witnesses included the new manager of Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) members of the coop and Texas state ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on July 1, 2008
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