Dive summary:
- Legislation is often introduced with grand names, and the backers of a bill to strengthen model building codes for energy efficiency and to make the federal government lead the way call their effort The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act.
- Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., say the bill would make code-writing smarter and more transparent and would offer the private sector tools that homeowners and businesses could use cheaply and voluntarily, and a posted summary says it would set up a Commercial Building Energy Efficiency Financing Initiative
- In a bylined piece in on Politico.com, the two cited a study whose calculations say the U.S. as a whole "wastes" 86% of the energy it consumes.
From the article:
Energy efficiency has broad, bipartisan support from business, energy and environmental advocates alike, and the legislation we have developed helps to promote energy efficiency through a smart, pragmatic plan that can be implemented immediately. ...
